Founder’s Quote

“The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified […]

“When Men are employ’d they are best contented. For on the Days they work’d they were good-natur’d and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done […]

“The people are not to be disarmed of their weapons. They are left in full possession of them.” —Zacharia Johnson (1788)

“Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” —Thomas Jefferson (1781)