Reply #12: Jefferson quotes that reveal his assholish nature

[Bucky]

Determine never to be idle... It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing. I have found it is particularly easy to do Katherine Greene of Providence, Rhode Island.
-- Jefferson, on avoiding laziness

Enlighten the people, generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like spirits at the dawn of day, much like John Quincy Adams's wiener disappears like a spirit in the presence of the ladies.
-- Jefferson, on education and liberty

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state. And by "free state" I mean every state that isn't Rhode Island, a notorious den of debauchery and assholes.
-- Jefferson, on vigilance among the citizenry

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. The second chapter in the book of wisdom has to do with not sharing a confined space with John Quincy Adams, whose breath is the most foul thing in any room in which he hasn't farted yet.
-- Jefferson, on the virtue of being forthright

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
-- Jefferson, on the virtue of civic ignorance