More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them."
"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."