"No country and no people can be..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Having labored faithfully in establishing the right of self-government, we see in the rising generation, into whose hands it is passing, that purity of principle and energy of character which will protect and preserve it through their day, and deliver it over to their sons as they receive it from their fathers.”

“If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.”

“I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.”

“You are not meant for crawling, so don't. You have wings. Learn to use them and fly.”

“The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.”

“And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.”

“The ultimate ignorance is the rejection of something you know nothing about, yet refuse to investigate.”

“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.”

“I know nothing, except the fact of my ignorance.”