History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.
Thomas JeffersonI do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.
Thomas JeffersonRightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.
Thomas JeffersonWe could in the United States make as great a variety of wines as are made in Europe, not exactly of the same kinds, but doubtless as good.
Thomas Jefferson