When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. – Thomas Jefferson
There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world. – Thomas Jefferson
I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad. – Thomas Jefferson
We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson