While learning the language in France a young man's morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.
Thomas JeffersonThe issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.
Thomas JeffersonThe Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.
Thomas JeffersonMy construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.
Thomas Jefferson