Send a Quote Enter a brief message. SendOk2 “What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.” ~ Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), US Founding Father, drafted the Declaration of Independence, 3rd US PresidentSource: November 13, 1787, letter to William S. Smith, quoted in Padover's Jefferson On Democracy, ed., 1939