"The people are not always well-informed, but..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“No society is so precious as that of one’s own family.”

“I pledge undying hostility to any government restrictions on the free minds of the people.”

“The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.”

“I'm better about things than about people. I'm more interested in people, but I'm better at ideas.”

“I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power.”

“All power is inherent in the people.”

“The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.”

“If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else.”

“What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?”