"Up until the late unpleasantness of the..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.”

“I join cordially in admiring and revering the Constitution of the United States, the result of the collected wisdom of our country. That wisdom has committed to us the important task of proving by example that a government, if organized in all its parts on the Representative principle unadulterated by the infusion of spurious elements, if founded, not in the fears & follies of man, but on his reason, on his sense of right, on the predominance of the social over his dissocial passions, may be so free as to restrain him in no moral right, and so firm as to protect him from every moral wrong.”

“Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will...Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”

“They claim that I'm violent just cuz I refuse to be silent.”

“Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free.”

“I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.”

“Consider that everything is opinion, and opinion is in thy power.”

“Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.”

“I think it impossible, utterly impossible, for any Englishman to live here [in America], and be happy.”