Words To Live By, And Words To Ponder EVERYDAY Of Our Lives, As Americans -- And Thomas Jefferson Should Know; He Was One Of The Guilty.

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment and death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment . . . inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Jean Nicholas Demeunier (24 January 1786) | The Federalist Papers