Thomas Jefferson — "The greatest danger to American freedom is a highly centralized government."

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."

"I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was ca…"

"The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its wounds and restore it to a sound and healthy state."

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

"I have looked on man, in the course of my life, as a chemical analysis might look on a compound substance."