Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.
Thomas JeffersonThere is no King, who, with sufficient force, is not always ready to make himself absolute.
Thomas JeffersonA truth now and then projecting into the ocean of newspaper lies serves like headlands to correct our course. Indeed, my scepticism as to everything I see in a newspaper makes me indifferent whether I ever see one.
Thomas JeffersonExperience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.
Thomas Jefferson