“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing...” — Thomas Jefferson Quote

“An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.”

“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.”

“May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately... These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.”

“As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.”

“Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.”

“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized.”