Thomas Jefferson

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.

Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.