Thomas Jefferson — "The people are the only censors of their governors."

"Every generation needs a new revolution."

"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."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions of the people, have become a very formidable engine against the civil rights and liberties of man."

"I never did, nor do I believe I ever will, give a dollar for a newspaper. I have thought that the information it contains is not worth the expense."