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→Fake quotes: A quote from Cesare Beccaria attributed often to Jefferson.
** Jefferson did write in 1787: "Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
** Jefferson did write in 1787: "Some are whigs, liberals, democrats, call them what you please. Others are tories, serviles, aristocrats, &c. The latter fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society; the former consider the people as the safest depository of power in the last resort; they cherish them therefore, and wish to leave in them all the powers to the exercise of which they are competent."<ref name="ReferenceA"/>
* "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" is commonly attributed to Jefferson, but was said by [[John Philpot Curran]]
* "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" is commonly attributed to Jefferson, but was said by [[John Philpot Curran]]
* "The laws of this nature are those which forbid to wear arms, disarming those only who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent. Can it be supposed, that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity, and the most important of the code, will respect the less considerable and arbitrary injunctions, the violation of which is so easy, and of so little comparative importance? Does not the execution of this law deprive the subject of that personal liberty, so dear to mankind and to the wise legislator? and does it not subject the innocent to all the disagreeable circumstances that should only fall on the guilty? It certainly makes the situation of the assaulted worse, and of the assailants better, and rather encourages than prevents murder, as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons." A passage written by [[Cesare Beccaria]] that Jefferson quotes but did not write himself, contained in his "''Legal Commonplace Book''".
==Jefferson - Jackson Dinners==
==Jefferson - Jackson Dinners==