Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.Thomas Jefferson
No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.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
The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.Thomas Jefferson
The second office in the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery.Thomas Jefferson
