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“For the members of the Lewis and Clark expedition, the suspension of their own mores when they came in contact with the Indian nations was quite the opposite of battle, bringing not horrors, but the guiltless pleasure of a liaison unlike any in the United States- unlike any, because it didn't have to be arranged, induced, concealed, limited, remunerated, or sanctified.”
― Julie M. Fenster, Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation

“Body and mind both unemployed, our being becomes a burthen, and every object about us loathsome, even the dearest. Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondria, and that a diseased body.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Like Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt, Jefferson kept his intimate feelings hidden from the public, either in triumph or in crisis.”
― Fawn Brodie

“To have a standing army. Good God! What can be worse to a people who have tasted the sweets of liberty.”
― Andrew Eliot