All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas JeffersonThe foundation on which (our government is) built is the natural equality of man, the denial of every pre-eminence but that annexed to legal office, and particularly the denial of a pre-eminence by birth.
Thomas JeffersonNothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.
Thomas JeffersonThe power of making war often prevents it, and in our case would give efficacy to our desire of peace.
Thomas JeffersonMORAL LAW, Evidence of.- Man has been subjected by his Creator to the moral law, of which his feelings, or conscience as it is sometimes called, are the evidence with which his Creator has furnished him. ... The moral duties which exist between individual and individual in a state of nature, accompany them into a state of society ... their Maker not having released them from those duties on their forming themselves into a nation.
Thomas Jefferson