It [appears] that however certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience [has] shown that, even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas JeffersonBe assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.
Thomas JeffersonI am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
Thomas Jefferson