"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." --Thomas Jefferson

"What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable, than that of Liberty and Learning, each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support."
–James Madison

"No man is good enough to govern another man, without the other's consent... this is the leading principle, the sheet anchor of American republicanism."
–Abraham Lincoln

"Our country is in danger, but not to be despaired of. Our enemies are numerous and powerful; but we have many friends, determining to be free, and heaven and earth will aid the resolution. On you depend the fortunes of America. You are to decide the important question, on which rest the happiness and liberty of millions yet unborn. Act worthy of yourselves."
--Joseph Warren

"It has been said that all Government is an evil. It would be more proper to say that the necessity of any Government is a misfortune."
–James Madison

"I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious."
-–Thomas Jefferson

"Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets."
–Abraham Lincoln, Message to Congress, July 4, 1861

"Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by
the individual." --Thomas Jefferson