There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.
Thomas JeffersonPeace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.
Thomas JeffersonNothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free.
Thomas JeffersonNo society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
Thomas JeffersonChemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.
Thomas Jefferson