Thomas Jefferson

"The walls of the Pantheon open to the sky as if to receive the daylight of heaven into the innermost sanctuary of the gods."

"An injured friend is the bitterest of foes."

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

"Whenever you do a thing, act as if all the world were watching."

"Light and liberty go together."

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

"Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"The Christian religion, as originally preached by Jesus, is a beautiful system of morality."

"A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable."

"It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it."

"Harmony is pleasure."

"The art of life is the art of avoiding pain."

"Manufacture them into every form to which ingenuity may direct them; but let them bear, at all times, some mark cognizable to the eye or to the touch."

"I am surrounded by priests who do not know that I am a priest."

"The true foundation of theology is to ascertain the character of God. It is by the aid of Science and Philosophy that this character is understood."

"Ought I not to regret that I should have lived so many years, and had so little influence on the minds of my countrymen?"

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted with their own government."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident."

"Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe."

"The credit belongs to the man whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood."

"Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people."

"The purpose of opening the Bible to every eye is not to make us all ministers, but to make us all Christians."

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

"The freedom and happiness of man are the sole objects of all legitimate government."

"It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing."

"I have great confidence in the ultimate justice of the people."

"We are not at war with the Islamic world. We are at war with terrorists."

"The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead."

"To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering, one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving."