The time to guard against corruption and tyranny is before they shall have gotten hold of us.
Thomas JeffersonWith those who wish to think amiss of me, I have learnt to be perfectly indifferent: but where I know a mind to be ingenuous, andto need only truth to set it to rights, I cannot be as passive.
Thomas JeffersonThe greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture. --The Fruit Hunters
Thomas JeffersonI do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
Thomas JeffersonI consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results not only from the provision that no law shall be made respecting the establishment or free exercise of religion, but from that also which reserves to the States the powers not delegated to the United States. Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise or to assume authority in any religious discipline has been delegated to the General Government. It must then rest with the States.
Thomas Jefferson