I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.
Thomas JeffersonI am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.
Thomas JeffersonI know nothing more important to inculcate into the minds of young people than the wisdom, the honor, and the blessed comfort of living within their income.
Thomas JeffersonThe appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
Thomas Jefferson