Thomas Jefferson — "The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us."

"I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the produce of the superflux."

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

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

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude."