Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807, http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/mtj:@field(DOCID+@lit(tj100173))