Thomas Jefferson

We do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

State a moral case to a ploughman and a professor. The former will decide it as well, and often better than the latter, because he has not been led astray by artificial rules.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.