If Thomas Jefferson had heard us, he probably would have said, 'We shouldn't have free speech.'

I think Thomas Jefferson would have said the more speech, the better.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.

If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it."

[First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1801]

A professorship of theology should have no place in our institution.