Famous quotes containing the words jefferson and/or told:
“The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“As soon as histories are properly told there is no more need of romances.”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)