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• It is error alone which needs the support of government.
  Truth can stand by itself. -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Notes on Virginia...
• I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.
  My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy....
• Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 133...
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia...
• The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred , ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.
  -- Thomas Jefferson, 1826...
• I cannot live without books. -- Thomas Jefferso