Daily quote |
Thomas JeffersonThe spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive. The spirit of this country is totally adverse to a large military force. The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them. The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it. The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression. There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents. There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me. There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world. Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty. |