Thomas Jefferson

I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which…

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or…

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a…

Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may…

It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war but if it shall actually…

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power…

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the…

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the…

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can…

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of…

Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes…

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion…

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled…

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves…

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and…