Some favorite quotes of Thomas Jefferson:

-The care of every man's soul belongs to himself.

-Excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

-The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens.

-The best government is that which governs least.

-The power to tax involves the power to destroy.

-The Constitution is a remarkable document, but it is not a perfect document.

-The only legitimate object of government is to do for the people what needs to be done, but which they cannot, by individual effort, do at all, or do so well, for themselves.

-The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

-The price of freedom is eternal vigilance.

-The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.