It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.
Thomas JeffersonScenes are now to take place as will open the eyes of credulity and of insanity itself, to the dangers of a paper medium abandoned to the discretion of avarice and of swindlers.
Thomas JeffersonThe worst day in a man's life is when he sits down and begins thinking about how he can get something for nothing.
Thomas JeffersonIf we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas JeffersonIn the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots to rights, either in fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe, and the opinions on which they will act. Get by them, therefore, as you would by an angry bull; it is not for a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.
Thomas JeffersonI do most anxiously wish to see the highest degrees of education given to the higher degrees of genius and to all degrees of it, so much as may enable them to read and understand what is going on in the world and to keep their part of it going on right; for nothing can keep it right but their own vigilant and distrustful superintendence.
Thomas Jefferson