No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
Thomas JeffersonReligious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.
Thomas JeffersonDo not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.
Thomas JeffersonTo your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, "by restraining it to true facts & sound principles only." Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of it's benefits, than is done by it's abandoned prostitution to falsehood.
Thomas Jefferson