A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.
Thomas Payne
Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Payne
