Thomas Jefferson

"I hope that we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."

"I find that the harder I work , the more luck I seem to have."

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

"The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government and to protect its free expression should be our first object."

". . . The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."

"Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect, and the American example has kindled feelings of right in the people."

"Everything yields to diligence."

"[n regard to Jesus believing himself inspired]This belief carried no more personal imputation than the belief of Socrates that he was under the care and admonition of a guardian demon. And how many of our wisest men still believe in the reality of these inspirations while perfectly sane on all other subjects (Works, Vol. Iv, p. 327)."

"Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God."

"The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading subjugation on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it: for man is an imitative animal."