Thomas Jefferson

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only legitimate object of good read more

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

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching.

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of read more

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.

Peace. commerce, and honest friendship with all
nations--entangling alliances with none.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.

Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty.