Thomas Jefferson — "I have looked on man, in the course of my life, as a chemical analysis might loo…"

"Our country is too large to have all its affairs directed by a single government."

"The mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God."

"The natural right of a man to impart his ideas to others is as sacred as his right to think at all."

"Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost."

"I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body a…"