Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.
Thomas JeffersonAll things here appear to me to trudge on in one and the same round: we rise in the morning that we may eat breakfast, dinner andsupper and to bed again that we may get up the next morning and do the same: so that you never saw two peas more alike than our yesterday and to-day.
Thomas JeffersonI know of no safe depository of the ultimate power of the society but the people themselves.
Thomas JeffersonThe art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.
Thomas JeffersonThe evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.
Thomas JeffersonWhen virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it, and avarice possesses the whole community. The objects of their desires are changed; what they were fond of before has become indifferent; they were free while under the restraint of laws, but they would fain now be free to act against law.
Thomas Jefferson