"I believe that every human mind feels..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.”

“God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion... We have had thirteen States independent for eleven years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century and a half, for each State. What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion.”

“Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.”

“Being asked where in Greece he saw good men, he replied, "Good men nowhere, but good boys at Sparta."”

“Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is "good."”

“Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.”

“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

“For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.”

“Men hate the haughty of heart who will not be the friend of every man.”