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Pako (no login)
Posted Sep 17, 2000 3:36 PM
Quote by Thomas Jefferson to a Nephew:
"Though you cannot see, when you take one step, what will be the next, yet follow truth, justice and plain dealing, and never fear their leading you out of the labyrinth, in the easiest manner possible. The knot which you thought a Gordian one, will untie itself before you. Nothing is so mistaken as the supposition that a person can extricate himself from a difficulty by intrigue, by chicanery, by dissimilation, by trimming, by an untruth, by an unjustice."
(Letter to Peter Carr, 19 August 1785 in The Life and Selected Writings of Thomas Jefferson, Modern Library, New York, 1944.) |
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