Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. –

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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. –

-- Thomas Jefferson

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Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

-- Thomas Jefferson

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