Thomas Jefferson
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action, according to our will, within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others"
"I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."
What 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 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.
