Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
Thomas JeffersonIf a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.
Thomas JeffersonThe Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
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 JeffersonI never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent. If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson