No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.
Thomas JeffersonHistory, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.
Thomas JeffersonOf all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
Thomas Jefferson