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• If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained?
  Those by death are few; by resignation, none....
• Still one more thing, fellow citizens: a wise and frugal governme
  which shall refrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• This is the Fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, last words (July 4, 1826)
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• This is the fourth? -- Thomas Jefferson, 4 July 1826, Last Word
• Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself.
  Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others?...
• A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one anothe
  which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned....
• Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind.
  Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things....
• Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political
  peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,--entangling alliances with none...