Footnotes to Plato from the foothills of the Superstition Mountains

Category: Founders

  • Thomas Jefferson on Shooting as Bodily Exercise

    The following, snagged from an outlying precinct of cyberspace, sounded bogus, so I put Snopes on the case: A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with…