The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?
Thomas JeffersonI am tired of a life of contention, and of being the personal object for the hatred of every man, who hates the present state of things.
Thomas JeffersonGaming corrupts our disposition and teaches us a habit of hostility against all mankind.
Thomas JeffersonLet us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions.
Thomas Jefferson