A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. – Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson

A mind always employed is always happy. This is the true secret, the grand recipe, for felicity. – Thomas Jefferson
I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive. – Thomas Jefferson
For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security. – Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson