More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."
"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 man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself."
"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."