The returning good sense of our country threatens abortion to their hopes, & they believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted i… - Thomas Jefferson

I have sworn upon the altar of god, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial.

Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

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.