“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man.”
“Perfect happiness, I believe, was never intended by the Deity to be the lot of one of his creatures in this world; but that he has very much put in our power the nearness of our approaches to it, is what I as steadfastly believe.”
– Thomas Jefferson
(3)
” The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.”
– Thomas Jefferson
(3) Portrait of Jefferson by Charles Willson Peale, 1791
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