"If virtuous, the government need not fear..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Our duty to ourselves, to posterity, and to mankind, call on usby every motive which is sacred or honorable, to watch over the safety of our beloved countryduring the troubles which agitate and convulse the residue of the world, and to sacrifice tothat all personal and local considerations.”

“The mobs of the great cities add just so much to the support of pure government as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution.”

“The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood.”

“Our minds possess by nature an insatiable desire to know the truth.”

“Deal in our privacy with the last honesty and truth.”

“Open yourself to the truth, then trust in your natural responses, and everything will fall into place.”

“If you can't answer a man's arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.”

“Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution.”

“It is very unfair in any writer to employ ignorance and malice together, because it gives his answerer double work.”