Whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
Thomas JeffersonIf I had to choose between government and a free press, I would choose a free press.
Thomas JeffersonNature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight.
Thomas JeffersonThe constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights
Thomas JeffersonA republic will avoid war unless the avoidance might create conditions that are worse than warfare itself. Sometimes, the dispositions of those who choose to make themselves our enemies leaves us no choice.
Thomas JeffersonThe fumes of the most disordered imaginations were recorded in their religious code, as special communications of the Deity; and as it could not but happen that, in the course of ages, events would now and then turn up to which some of these vague rhapsodies might be accommodated by the aid of allegories, figures, types, and other tricks upon words, they have not only preserved their credit with the Jews of all subsequent times, but are the foundation of much of the religions of those who have schismatised from them.
Thomas Jefferson