Believing that the happiness of mankind is best promoted by the useful pursuits of peace, that on these alone a stable prosperity can be founded, that the evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come, I have used my best endeavors to keep our country uncommitted in the troubles which afflict Europe, and which assail us on every side.
Thomas JeffersonThe relations which exist between man and his Maker, and the duties resulting from those relations, are the most interesting and important to every human being and the most incumbent on his study and investigation.
Thomas JeffersonI join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.
Thomas JeffersonShould things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
Thomas JeffersonLet our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.
Thomas Jefferson