I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.
Thomas JeffersonThe mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body.
Thomas JeffersonEvery nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.
Thomas JeffersonShould look forward to a time, and that not a distant one, when corruption in this, as in the country from which we derive our origin, will have seized the heads of government, and be spread by them through the body of the people; when they will purchase the voices of the people, and make them pay the price.
Thomas Jefferson