The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.
Thomas JeffersonIndependence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.
Thomas JeffersonMillions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
Thomas Jefferson