“We hold these truths … that to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people TO ALTER OR ABOLISH IT, and to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to affect their safety and happiness.” – Thomas Jefferson
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization and free, it expects what never was and never will be … if we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.” – Thomas Jefferson
“Periodic revolution at least every 20 years was a medicine necessary for the sound health of government and that the tree of liberty needed to be nourished regularly with a fresh supply of patriot blood.” – Thomas Jefferson
“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” – Alan Ashley-Pitt.
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.” – George Bernard Shaw.
