The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government
Thomas JeffersonThe moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.
Thomas JeffersonPeople generally have more feeling for canals and roads than education. However, I hope we can advance them with equal pace.
Thomas JeffersonWhat has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?
Thomas Jefferson