The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].
Thomas JeffersonIt is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Thomas JeffersonI am sure that in estimating every man's value either in private or public life, a pure integrity is the quality we take first into calculation, and that learning and talents are only the second.
Thomas JeffersonI never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.
Thomas Jefferson