The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Thomas JeffersonI do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.
Thomas JeffersonIt is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Thomas JeffersonWhat has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
Thomas Jefferson