The general (federal) government will tend to monarchy, which will fortify itself from day to day, instead of working its own cures.
Thomas Jeffersonthis interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to be the chief instrument in effecting it.
Thomas JeffersonGovernment as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.
Thomas JeffersonI consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man.
Thomas Jefferson