It may seem a hard task to condemn fellow creatures to long years of confinement in prison, but it is not so hard if they clearly deserve it.


Thomas Mellon

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Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he ...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves a...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our o...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by who...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful an...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Commerce changes the fate and genius of nations.
THOMAS GRAY
Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wr...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
He who knows best knows how little he knows.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have,...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by educat...
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.
THOMAS JEFFERSON
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and hold them in the right scale of values.
NORMAN THOMAS
Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.
THOMAS MANN