Thomas Jefferson

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.

Thomas Jefferson

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

Thomas Jefferson

While the farmer holds the title to the land, actually, it belongs to all the people because civilization itself rests upon the soil.

Thomas Jefferson

Would it not be better to simplify the system of taxation rather than to spread it over such a variety of subjects and pass through so many new hands.

Thomas Jefferson

You see I am an enthusiast on the subject of the arts. But it is an enthusiasm of which I am not ashamed, as its object is to improve the taste of my countrymen, to increase their reputation, to reconcile to them the respect of the world, and procure them its praise.

Thomas Jefferson