"I will not believe our labors are..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.”

“The reflections that the boys of this age are to be the men of the next; that they should be prepared to receive the holy charge which we are cherishing to deliver over to them; that in establishing an institution of wisdom for them, we secure it to all our future generations; that in fulfilling this duty, we bring home to our own bosoms the sweet consolation of seeing our sons rising under a luminous tuition, to destinies of high promise; these are considerations which will occur to all.”

“We never repent of having eaten too little.”

“Our hopes, often though they deceive us, lead us pleasantly along the path of life.”

“Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us.”

“Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.”

“We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.”

“There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety.”

“China has to go along with world trends. That's democracy, liberty, individual freedom. China sooner or later has to go that way. It cannot go backward.”