Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

I have seen enough of one war never to wish to see another.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The sovereign invigorator of the body is exercise, and of all the exercises walking is the best.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there is one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded faith.

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.