Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.
Thomas JeffersonError is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.
Thomas JeffersonThe abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.
Thomas JeffersonWere I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?
Thomas Jefferson