"That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.”

“Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality”

“When an instrument admits two constructions, the one safe, the other dangerous, the one precise, the other indefinite, I prefer that which is safe and precise.”

“Youth is a continual intoxication; it is the fever of reason.”

“O heart, we are old;The living beauty is for younger men:We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”

“The delicious faces of children, the beauty of school-girls, "the sweet seriousness of sixteen," the lofty air of well-born, well-bred boys, the passionate histories in the looks and manners of youth and early manhood, and the varied power in all that well-known company that escort us through life,--we know how these forms thrill, paralyze, provoke, inspire, and enlarge us.”

“Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.”

“Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.”

“Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom.”