"Let the eye of vigilance never be..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.”

“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.”

“I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.”

“There is no week, nor day, nor hour, when tyranny may not enter upon this country, if the people lose their supreme confidence in themselves, and lose their roughness and spirit of defiance. Tyranny may always enter—there is no charm or bar against it.”

“Eternal Vigilance is the price of democracy.”

“Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people; they fix too for the people the principles of their political creed.”

“It is to secure our rights that we resort to government at all.”

“Where the great force lies, there must be the sanction of peace.”

“A man in the house is worth two in the street.”