I was dupedby the Secretary of the treasury [Alexander Hamilton], and made a fool for forwarding his schemes, not then sufficiently understood by me; and of all the errors of my political life, this has occasioned the deepest regret.
Thomas JeffersonThe appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.
Thomas JeffersonWho then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
Thomas JeffersonIf we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
Thomas Jefferson