"I see no comfort in outliving one's..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite.”

“No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.”

“And where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?”

“If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough.”

“At 68 I'm every age I ever was. I always think of that. I'm not just 68. I'm also 55 and 21 and three. Oh especially three.”

“Stop whining about getting old. It's a privilege. A lot of people who are dead wish they were still alive.”

“Self-love makes our friends appear more or less deserving in proportion to the delight we take in them, and the measures by whichwe judge of their worth depend upon the manner of their conversing with us.”

“We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy.”

“All of my favorite people - people I really trust - none of them were cool in their younger years.”