"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
Awareness
"Equal rights for all, special privileges for none."
- President Thomas Jefferson
Belief
"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
Belief
"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
Integrity
"Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law."
- President Thomas Jefferson
Philosophy
"The greatest strength lies in vulnerability."
- Beauty and the Beast
Courage
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain
Courage
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
- Tracee Ellis Ross
Courage
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough."
- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Courage
"Courage, dear heart."
- C.S. Lewis
Courage