Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will... - Thomas Jefferson

"I cannot live without books."

"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."