"It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life." --Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1814. ME 19:213

"The Spanish language... and the English covering nearly the whole face of America, they should be well-known to every inhabitant who means to look beyond the limits of his farm." --Thomas Jefferson to Peter Carr, 1788. ME 7:44

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Thomas Jefferson, (attributed)
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson