President Thomas Jefferson

"Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world’s believing him. This falsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

- President Thomas Jefferson

"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."

- President Thomas Jefferson