Circumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
Thomas Jeffersonno one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
Thomas JeffersonTo take a single step beyond the boundaries specially drawn around the powers of Congress is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible to definition.
Thomas JeffersonHad the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
Thomas JeffersonGouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.
Thomas JeffersonHaving labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.
Thomas Jefferson