I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health, and the liberties of man.
Thomas JeffersonIf the obstacles of bigotry and priestcraft can be surmounted, we may hope that common sense will suffice to do everything else.
Thomas JeffersonOur tenet ever was . . . that Congress had not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but were restrained to those specifically enumerated; and that, as it was never meant that they should provide for that welfare but by the exercise of the enumerated powers, so it could not have been meant they should raise money for purposes which the enumeration did not place under their action.
Thomas JeffersonThe art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
Thomas Jefferson