"The right to use a thing comprehends..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“Above all things, and at all times, practice yourself in good humor.”

“New York, like London, seems to be a cloacina [toilet] of all the depravities of human nature.”

“I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.”

“Man ... feels that he is a participator in the government of affairs not merely at an election, one day in the year, but every day.”

“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”

“The problem with common sense is, it isn't.”

“Reasons come first. Answers come second”

“To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true.”