"the boys of the rising generation are..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“I have a right to nothing which another has a right to take away.”

“Never did a prisoner, released from his chains, feel such relief as I shall on shaking off the shackles of power.”

“We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.”

“(Five) thinkers since Galileo, each informing his successor of what discoveries his own lifetime had seen achieved, might have passed the torch of science into our hands as we sit here in this room. Indeed, for the matter of that, an audience much smaller than the present one, an audience of some 5 or 6 score people, if each person in it could speak for his own generation, would carry us away to the black unknown of the human species, to days without a document or monument to tell their tale.”

“What is happening to our young people? They disrespect their elders, they disobey their parents. They ignore the law. They riot in the streets inflamed with wild notions. Their morals are decaying. What is to become of them?”

“The future inhabitants of [both] the Atlantic and Mississippi states will be our sons. We think we see their happiness in their union, and we wish it. Events may prove otherwise; and if they see their interest in separating why should we take sides? God bless them both, and keep them in union if it be for their good, but separate them if it be better.”

“I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me.”

“Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.”

“All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.”