Thomas Jefferson

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized…

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses…

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall…

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground…

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom…

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and…

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy…

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them…

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show…

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or…

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the…

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another…

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part…

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people…

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of…