“I hope you will have good sense enough to disregard those foolish predictions that the world is to be at an end soon. The Almighty has never made known to anybody at what time he created it, nor will he tell anybody when he means to put an end to it, if ever he means to do it.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON, to his wife Martha
“It is between fifty and sixty years since I read it and I then considered it merely the ravings of a maniac, no more worthy nor capable of explanation than the incoherences of our own nightly dreams.”
—THOMAS JEFFERSON, on the Book of Revelations