Salutes the Genius of Thomas Jefferson

  "In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion     and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance."

                                                                                                 Thomas Jefferson to David Harding, 1824

"There is not a truth existing which I fear or would wish unknown to the whole world"

                                                                                                                                                            Thomas Jefferson to Henry Lee , 1826

"In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.   He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses for protection to his own"

                                                                                                                                              Thomas Jefferson to Horatio G. Spafford, 1814

"Liberty...is the great parent of science and of virtue; and...a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free.""

                                                                                                                                              Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Willard, 1789

"Without virtue, happiness cannot be."

                                                                                                                                              Thomas Jefferson to Amos J. Cook, 1816