"New York, like London, seems to be..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion? And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”

“As government grows, freedom recedes.”

“I suppose, indeed, that in public life, a man whose political principles have any decided character and who has energy enough to give them effect must always expect to encounter political hostility from those of adverse principles.”

“Black men - one might be the president. Well, America's in too much trouble - I don't want that job now.”

“Painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.”

“Objects of charity are not guests.”

“Towns find it as hard as houses of business to rise again from ruin.”

“Manchester is the belly and guts of the nation”

“You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy.”