{"quotes":[{"text":"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.","author":"Benjamin Franklin","tags":["freedom","jefferson","security","thomas","thomas-jefferson"],"id":17528,"author_id":"Benjamin+Franklin"},{"text":"From this we conclude, that, to live in harmony and peace…we must trace a line of distinction between those (assertions) that are capable of verification, and those that are not; (we must) separate by an inviolable barrier the world of fantastical beings from the world of realities.","author":"Constantin-François Volney","tags":["enlightenment-principles","fictional","harmony","peace","reality","scientific","separation-of-church-and-state","thomas-jefferson","thomas-jefferson-translation","verification"],"id":26122,"author_id":"Constantin-Fran%C3%A7ois+Volney"},{"text":"Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["america","military","soldier","thomas-jefferson"],"id":58373,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"History is philosophy teaching by examples.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["18th-century","history","thomas-jefferson"],"id":119679,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule.","author":"Carl Sagan","tags":["education","ignorance","skepticism","thomas-jefferson"],"id":130899,"author_id":"Carl+Sagan"},{"text":"How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["america","founding-fathers","freedom","liberty","thomas-jefferson"],"id":132717,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"},{"text":"Without Thomas Jefferson and his Declaration of Independence, there would have been no American revolution that announced universal principles of liberty. Without his participation by the side of the unforgettable Marquis de Lafayette, there would have been no French proclamation of The Rights of Man. Without his brilliant negotiation of the Louisiana treaty, there would be no United States of America. Without Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, there would have been no Virginia Statute on Religious Freedom, and no basis for the most precious clause of our most prized element of our imperishable Bill of Rights - the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.","author":"Christopher Hitchens","tags":["1st-amendment","american-revolution","bill-of-rights","declaration-of-independence","freedom-of-religion","james-madison","liberty","marquis-de-lafayette","thomas-jefferson","united-states","us-constitution"],"id":176297,"author_id":"Christopher+Hitchens"},{"text":"Making wine and drinking wine is not new to African Americans and others in the Diaspora. South Africa has a three-century history in growing, harvesting and distilling grapes as wine. The entire continent of Africa has a history in wine-making. In this country, slaves cultivated the vineyards owned by Thomas Jefferson and other vintners.","author":"Andre Hueston Mack","tags":["africa","african-american-history","african-americans","slaves","thomas-jefferson","wine-history","wine-making","wine"],"id":184420,"author_id":"Andre+Hueston+Mack"},{"text":"...The Presidential election has given me less anxiety than I myself could have imagined. The next administration will be a troublesome one, to whomsoever it falls, and our John has been too much worn to contend much longer with conflicting factions. I call him our John, because, when you were at the Cul de sac at Paris, he appeared to me to be almost as much your boy as.","author":"John Adams","tags":["agnosticism","belief","blasphemy","confessions-of-faith","creeds","episcopal","europeans","flourens","golden-rule","herschel","isaac-newton","jean-pierre-flourens","jefferson","jews","judaism","liberal-science","matter-and-spirit","newton","presbyterian","science","thomas-jefferson","university-of-virginia","virginia","william-herschel"],"id":192799,"author_id":"John+Adams"},{"text":"If you serve humanity, you serve humanity's God.","author":"Thomas Jefferson","tags":["god","humanity","thomas-jefferson"],"id":227432,"author_id":"Thomas+Jefferson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}