“The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Experience has shown, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?”
– Thomas Jefferson

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
– Thomas Jefferson

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin