"GOD WHO GAVE US LIFE GAVE US LIBERTY"

Thomas Jefferson

3rd U.S. President, Drafter and Signer of the Declaration of Independence

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the Gift of God?

That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever..."
_{--Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVIII, p. 237.}

"I am a real Christian – that is to say, a disciple of the doctrines of Jesus Christ."
_{--The Writings of Thomas Jefferson, p. 385.}