This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.
Thomas JeffersonThe Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.
Thomas JeffersonThere is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas JeffersonAmbition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.
Thomas JeffersonTo all of which is added a selection from the elementary schools of subjects of the most promising genius, whose parents are too poor to give them further education, to be carried at the public expense through the college and university. The object is to bring into action that mass of talents which lies buried in poverty in every country, for want of the means of development, and thus give activity to a mass of mind, which, in proportion to our population, shall be double or treble of what it is in most countries.
Thomas Jefferson