No duty the Executive had to perform was so trying as to put the right man in the right place.
Thomas JeffersonI have now the gloomy prospect of retiring from office loaded with serious debts, which will materially affect the tranquility of my retirement.
Thomas JeffersonBy nature's law, every man has a right to seize and retake by force his own property taken from him by another, by force of fraud. Nor is this natural right among the first which is taken into the hands of regular government after it is instituted. It was long retained by our ancestors. It was a part of their common law, laid down in their books, recognized by all the authorities, and regulated as to circumstances of practice.
Thomas Jefferson