Thomas Jefferson — "The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in…"

"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."

"To suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous fallacy, …"

"No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we are about to present to the world, of the practicability of a decent and republican government, and of maintaining it in…"

"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories."

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."