Thomas Jefferson Neither Quotations

It is neither wealth nor splendor? but tranquillity and occupation which givehappiness.

It is neither wealth nor splendor; but tranquillity and occupation which give happiness.

Laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes...Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.