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• What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms!" -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), Letter to Colonel W. S. Smith, 1787...
• W]hat country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that [the] people preserve the spirit of resistance?
  Let them take arms...The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• Quote #392 "And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance ?
  Let them take arms ... The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants....
• In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.
  He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own....
• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it?
  Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state....
• OBSESSED, p.p. Vexed by an evil spirit, like the Gadarene swine and other critics.
  Obsession was once more common than it is now. Arasthus tells of a peasant who was occupied by a different devil for every day in the week, and on Sundays by two....
• The militia of these free commonwealths, entitled and accustomed to their arms, when compared with any possible army, must be _tremendous and irresistable_.
  Who are the militia? _are they not ourselves_. Is it feared, then, that we shall turn our arms _each man against his own bosom_....
• I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselve
  and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but to inform their discretion by education....
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...