It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods.

The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.