He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas JeffersonThe happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.
Thomas JeffersonA rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.
Thomas JeffersonHe has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the christian king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce...
Thomas Jefferson