No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.
Thomas JeffersonThe superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.
Thomas JeffersonThe mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.
Thomas JeffersonIf I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
Thomas Jefferson