The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

How did Jefferson feel about the people of his day who were the equivalent of our modern day penecostals? You know, those revelation reveling tongue speaking idiots.

During the late war I had an infallible rule for deciding what Great Britain would do on every occasion. It was, to consider what they ought to do, and to take the reverse of that as what they would assuredly do, and I can say with truth that I was never deceived.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.