More quotes by Thomas Jefferson

"They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live."
"Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it."
"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."
"Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty."
"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."