Thomas Jefferson Preference Quotations

I prefer to be remembered for what I have done for others, not what others have done for me.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

The power of declaring war being with the Legislature, the Executive should do nothing necessarily committing them to decide for war in preference of non-intercourse, which will be preferred by a great many.