Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.
Thomas JeffersonEvery government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.
Thomas JeffersonWho then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.
Thomas JeffersonBorn in the same land, we ought to live as brothers, doing to each other all the good we can, and not listening to wicked men, who may endeavor to make us enemies. By living in peace, we can help and prosper one another; by waging war, we can kill and destroy many on both sides; but those who survive will not be the happier for that.
Thomas Jefferson