On Why They Didn't Free The Slaves

"But they saw that the moment of doing it with success was not yet arrived, and that an unsuccessful effort, as too often happens, would only rivet still closer the chains of bondage, and retard the moment of delivery to this oppressed description of men."

Jefferson quote source: Answers to Demeunier's Queries. June 26, 1786

Power gets wealth, wealth gets power

"The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be sources of wealth and dominion to those who hold them; distinguished too by this tempting circumstance, that they are the instrument, as well as the object of acquisition. With the money we will get men, said Caesar, and with men we will get money."

(Emphasis added to Jefferson quote by Double Birds)

Jefferson quote source: Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XIII