"I don't want them to kill no..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.”

“No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. If our government ever fails, it will be from this weakness.”

“An honest heart being the first blessing, a knowing head is the second.”

“Learn diligence before speedy execution.”

“A vision, without a plan, is just a hallucination.”

“All your ideas may be solid or even good .. But you have to Actually EXECUTE on them for them to matter.”

“If integration will get [black man] that [respect as the human being], all right. If segregation will get him that, all right. If separation will get him that, all right.But after he gets integration and he still doesn't have this dignity and this recognition as a human being, then his problem is still not solved.”

“No man in America has ever stood up so persistently and effectively for the dignity of human nature, knowing himself for a man, and the equal of any and all governments. In that sense he was the most American of us all.”

“He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.”