Thomas Jefferson — "The democracy which I have been so long laboring to establish in Virginia has re…"

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."

"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other."

"I think myself that we are over-governed, and that the best government is that which governs least."

"I think that we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."