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.

Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

The juries are our judges of all fact, and of law when they choose it.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.