Thomas Jefferson

"Differences of opinion lead to inquiry, and inquiry to truth."

"The most afflicting of human calamities is the death of one's children."

"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

"Every person has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other person has a right to utter what they think impugns it."

"The study of law qualifies a man to be useful to himself and to others."

"A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may impose their will on the remaining forty-nine."

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."

"Experience hath shown that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"He who fears God, has nothing else to fear."

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

"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves is sinful and tyrannical."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man."

"The greatest service which can be rendered any country is to add a useful plant to its culture."

"One should as a ruler of men go in front of them, after the manner of the north star."

"Money, in fact, is not a necessity of life. It is a luxury."

"No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden."

"A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned."

"Information is the currency of democracy."

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

"The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest."

"I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least one way or the other."

"Perseverance and determination alone are omnipotent."

"We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it."

"The institution of slavery is a moral depravity."

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities."

"The dead should not rule the living."