Quotes

“God sleeps in the minerals, awakens in plants, walks in animals, and thinks in man.” Arthur Young

“The purpose creates the machine.” Arthur Young

“The tendency of philosophers who know nothing of machinery is to talk of man as a mere mechanism, intending by this to imply that he is without purpose. This shows a lack of understanding of machines as well as of man.” Arthur Young

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” Thomas Jefferson

“Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out.” Arthur Young

“The spirit or life spark which animates this manifestation could be called God.” Arthur Young

“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” Thomas Jefferson

“I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.” Thomas Jefferson

“When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.” Thomas Jefferson

“Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.” Thomas Jefferson

“Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.” Thomas Jefferson

“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” Thomas Jefferson

“Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.” Thomas Jefferson

“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” Thomas Jefferson

“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.” Thomas Jefferson

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Thomas Jefferson

“It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.” Thomas Jefferson

“A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.” Thomas Jefferson

“Be polite to all, but intimate with few.” Thomas Jefferson

“One of the things that has to be faced is the process of waiting to change the system, how much we have got to do to find out who we are, where we have come from and where we are going.” Ella Baker

“Strong people don't need strong leaders.” Ella Baker

“Give light and people will find the way.” Ella Baker

“Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.” Thomas Jefferson

“I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.” Thomas Jefferson

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.” Thomas Jefferson

“As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.” Thomas Jefferson

“One man with courage is a majority.” Thomas Jefferson

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” Thomas Jefferson

“History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.” Thomas Jefferson

“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson