"Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared”

“In the legislature, the House of Representatives is chosen by less than half the people, and not at all in proportion to those who do choose. The Senate are still more disproportionate, and for long terms of irresponsibility. In the Executive, the Governor is entirely independent of the choice of the people, and of their control; his Council equally so, and at best but a fifth wheel to a wagon. In the Judiciary, the judges of the highest courts are dependent on none but themselves.”

“Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.”

“no people can be both ignorant and free.”

“I know little about nature and hardly anything about men.”

“Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.”

“It feels good when it helps to get a good seat for a football game. But it never helped me make a good film or a good shot in a polo game, or command the obedience of my daughter. It doesn”

“Patience is grossly underestimated.”

“Even though human life may be the most precious thing on earth, we always behave as if there were something of higher value than human life.”