"My affections were first for my own..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“If NATURE has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea... No one possesses the less, because every other possess the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”

“A true patriot will defend his country from its government.”

“Our cause is just. Our union is perfect. ... With hearts fortified ... we most solemnly, before God and the world, declare that... we will, in defiance of every hazard, with unabating firmness and perseverence, employ for the preservation of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen rather than to live slaves.”

“Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.”

“Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune.”

“There can be no great literature in America until her writers have learned to trust her implicitly and love her devoutly.”

“Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.”

“The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.”

“It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.”