Dell Bolden

“[It is a] happy truth that man is capable of self-government, and only rendered otherwise by the moral degradation designedly superinduced on him by the wicked acts of his tyrant.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.”
― Thomas Jefferson

“But every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.”
― Thomas Jefferson, U.S. Presidential Inaugural Addresses