It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it (i.e. the Book of Revelations), and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherence of our own nightly dreams.
Thomas JeffersonEarnestly recommended to all officers and soldiers, diligently to attend divine services.
Thomas JeffersonThe greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
Thomas JeffersonThere is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.
Thomas JeffersonWhat a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, imprisonment & death itself in vindication of his own liberty, and the next moment ... inflict on his fellow men a bondage, one hour of which is fraught with more misery than ages of that which he rose in rebellion to oppose.
Thomas Jefferson