Thomas Jefferson

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations - entangling alliances with none.

I believe that justice is instinct and innate, the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

Is it the Fourth?

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

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God?

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

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.

Thomas Jefferson's Decalogue of Canons I. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.