We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.
Thomas JeffersonI would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas JeffersonBeing myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.
Thomas Jefferson