I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

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I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Power is not alluring to pure minds

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Thomas Jefferson asked himself In what country on earth would you rather live He first answered Certainly in my own where are all my friends my relations and the earliest and sweetest affections and recollections of my life. But he continued which would be your second choice His answer France.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Our civil rights have no dependence on our religious opinions any more than our opinions in physics or geometry…

-- Thomas Jefferson

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But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle. –

-- Thomas Jefferson

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