“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring o...” — Thomas Jefferson Quote

“A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.”

“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.”

“The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.”

“Nothing is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.”

“No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.”

“Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.”

“'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'”

“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”

“In the individualist ideology, a man is responsible for his wife and children. This relegates women to domestic roles as wives and mothers protected by their menfolk, or silences them as special interest harpies demanding government benefits that will destroy individualist men.”

“In Newark, we see a problem and want to seize it, but we run up against the wall of state government, the wall of federal government that does not have the flexibility or doesn't see problems, even. At the federal level, it's often a zero-sum game: If you win, I lose. At the local level, it's just not local that. It's win-win-win.”

“A union of government and religion tends to destroy government and degrade religion.”