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.

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

  • Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society.

  • In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue.

  • The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.