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I have sometimes asked myself whether my country is the better for my having lived at all? I do not know that it is. I have been the instrument of doing the following things; but they would have been done by others; some of them, perhaps, a little better.   Jefferson, Thomas

Source: THOMAS JEFFERSON, Services of Jefferson , The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, ed. Paul L. Ford, vol. 7, p. 475 . · This quote is about uncategorised · Search on Google Books to find all references and sources for this quotation.

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