It is error alone which needs the support of government. Tru... - Thomas Jefferson

"I cannot live without books."

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government."

"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."

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom."

"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."