In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. – Thomas Jefferson
In matters of principals, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. – Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. – Thomas Jefferson
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past. – Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. – 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