How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.