Famous quotes containing the words jefferson and/or wrote:
“If I could not go to heaven but with a [political] party, I would not go there at all.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“When I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)