The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. – Thomas Jefferson
The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government. – Thomas Jefferson
Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong. – Thomas Jefferson
I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale. – Thomas Jefferson