"Taste cannot be controlled by law. We..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I wish I was a despot that I might save the noble, the beautiful trees that are daily falling sacrifice to the cupidity of their owners, or the necessity of the poor. The unnecessary felling of a tree, perhaps the growth of centuries, seems to me a crime little short of murder.”

“In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue. It is the practice of sacrificing to those whom we meet in society, all the little inconveniences and preferences which will gratify them, and deprive us of nothing worth a moment's consideration; it is the giving a pleasing and flattering turn to our expressions, which will conciliate others, and make them pleased with us as well as themselves. How cheap a price for the good will of another!”

“While prudence will endeavor to avoid this issue of war, bravery will prepare to meet it.”

“We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share.”

“When those in power deny you of freedom the only path to freedom is power”

“The desire to achieve grand utopian plans often poses a grave threat to freedom.”

“Conscience is a thousand swords.”

“We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him.”

“Friendship is given us by nature, not to favor vice, but to aid virtue.”