"From the nature of things, every society..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.”

“I cannot live without books.”

“I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both”

“My conception of dominion status implies present ability to severe the British connection if I wish to.”

“If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.”

“There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.”

“If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent.”

“The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.”

“If its individual citizens, to a man, are to be believed, it always is depressed, and always is stagnated, and always is at an alarming crisis, and never was otherwise; though as a body, they are ready to make oath upon the Evangelists, at any hour of the day or night, that it is the most thriving and prosperous of all countries on the habitable globe.”