The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
Thomas JeffersonAll men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas JeffersonHealth, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.
Thomas JeffersonA generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.
Thomas Jefferson