The clergy converted the simple teachings of Jesus into an engine for enslaving mankind and adulterated by artificial constructions into a contrivance to filch wealth and power to themselves...these clergy, in fact, constitute the real Anti-Christ.
Thomas JeffersonThe cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.
Thomas JeffersonThe moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.
Thomas Jefferson