It is the old practice of despots to use a part of the people to keep the rest in order.
Thomas JeffersonBy making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.
Thomas JeffersonI hope we shall prove how much happier for man the Quaker policy is, and that the life of the feeder is better than that of the fighter; and it is some consolation that the desolation by these maniacs of one part of the earth is the means of improving it in other parts. Let the latter be our office, and let us milk the cow, while the Russian holds her by the horns, and the Turk by the tail.
Thomas JeffersonRogueries, absurdities and untruths were perpetrated upon the teachings of Jesus by a large band of dupes and importers led by Paul, the first great corrupter of the teaching of Jesus.
Thomas Jefferson