Thomas Jefferson

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held read more

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

Nobody can acquire honor by doing what is wrong

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which read more

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that read more

If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest

All authority belongs to the people

All authority belongs to the people