"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery...." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.”

“Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.”

“A rising nation, spread over a wide and fruitful Land, traversing all the seas with the rich production of their Industry.”

“Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?”

“I was not born to be forced.”

“There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence.”

“The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.”

“Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.”

“Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear to the French people, as it will be to all free men of the two worlds; and especially to French soldiers, who, like him and the American soldiers, have combated for liberty and equality.”