Thomas Jefferson — "The most successful war seldom pays for its losses."

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but …"

"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…"

"I do not know whether it is a greater proof of the wisdom or the folly of man, that he is so apt to be caught by the same bait, and to fall into the same snare, from generation to generation."

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."