the study of the law is useful in a variety of points of view. it qualifies a man to be useful to himself, to his neighbors, & to the public.
Thomas JeffersonIn our early struggles for liberty, religious freedom could not fail to become a primary object.
Thomas JeffersonHad the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.
Thomas JeffersonA first attempt to recover the right of self government may fail, so may a second, a third, etc. But as a younger and more instructed race comes on, the sentiment becomes more and more intuitive, and a fourth, a fifth, or some subsequent one of the ever renewed attempts will ultimately succeed... To attain all this, however, rivers of blood must yet flow, and years of desolation pass over; yet the object is worth rivers of blood and years of desolation. For what inheritance so valuable can man leave to his posterity?
Thomas Jefferson