Thomas Jefferson

Delay is preferable to error.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

The battles after the wars are over can be the toughest; there's no longer the public interest that accompanies, for good and for ill, the start of combat.

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.