Thomas Jefferson

Every generation needs a new revolution.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

The most valuable of all possessions is a good name.

Taxes too heavy for the people to pay and bear, must be cut down.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.

I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.

Delay is preferable to error.

The most important of all arts is that of living.

He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

The people are the only censors of their governors: and even their errors will tend to keep these to the true principles of their institution.

It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.

The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.