"It [appears] that however certain forms of..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I have much confidence that we shall proceed successfully for ages to come. My hope of its duration is built much on the enlargement of the resources of life going hand in hand with the enlargement of territory.”

“With your talents and industry, with science, and that steadfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thing-but health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of evey other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.”

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”

“I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor.”

“The more prohibitions you have, the less virtuous people will be. Try to make people moral, and you lay the groundwork for vice.”

“Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.”

“Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?”

“Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.”

“And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war.”