I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.
Thomas JeffersonThe genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.
Thomas JeffersonCircumstances sometimes require, that rights the most unquestionable should be advanced with delicacy.
Thomas JeffersonWe do, then, most solemnly before God and the world declare that regardless of every consequence, at the risk of every distress, the arms we have been compelled to assume we will use with perseverance, exerting to their utmost energies all those powers which our Creator hath given us to preserve that liberty which he committed to us in sacred deposit and to protect from every hostile hand our lives and our properties.
Thomas Jefferson