"When we get piled upon one another..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Choice by the people themselves is not generally distinguished for its wisdom.”

“I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.”

“It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“Laws are not made for the good.”

“Very few people can afford to be poor.”

“We are always getting ready to live, but never living... The wave moves onward but the particles of which it is composed do not... It cannot be but that at intervals throughout society there are real men intermixed . . . as the carpenter puts one iron bar in his bannister for every five or six wooden ones.”

“New York is a sucked orange. All conversation is at an end, when we have discharged ourselves of a dozen personalities, domestic or imported, which make up our American existence.”

“New York is a sucked orange.”

“What care though rival cities soarAlong the stormy coast,Penn's town, New York, Baltimore,If Boston knew the most!”