The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society.

Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The land, the earth God gave to man for his home ... should never be the possession of any man, corporation, (or) society ... any more than the air or water.

I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of "Liberty to all" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all.