The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
Thomas JeffersonI think our governments will remain virtuous for many centuries; as long as they are chiefly agricultural.
Thomas JeffersonIf a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be ... The People cannot be safe without information. When the press is free, and every man is able to read, all is safe.
Thomas JeffersonIf there be any among us who wish to dissolve the Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed, as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson