In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. – Thomas Jefferson
The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper