Thomas Jefferson

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him?

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

I advance with obedience to the work, ready to retire from it whenever you become sensible how much better choice it is in your power to make

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.