From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
Thomas JeffersonThe Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.
Thomas JeffersonIf the measures which have been pursued are approved by the majority, it is the duty of the minority to acquiesce and conform.
Thomas Jefferson