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• All is for the best in this best of all possible worlds.
• Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- Last words of John Adam
• Thomas Jefferson--still surv... -- John Adams - last word
• What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?
  If men were angels, no government would be necessary. -- Thomas Jefferso...
• The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show.
  Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that....
• In this best of all possible worlds, everything is in a hell of a mess. -- Brother Theodore
• I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable of thinking for myself.
  Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent....
• But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religio
  before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing t heir oppressors in Church and State....
• The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it always to be kept alive.
  It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all....