More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
"A nation which expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, expects that which never was and never will be."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."