Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.
Thomas JeffersonNatural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
Thomas Jeffersonpreach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.
Thomas JeffersonI hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.
Thomas JeffersonTaxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Thomas JeffersonI set out on this ground which I suppose to be self-evident, that the earth belongs in usufruct to the living. . . . We seem not to perceive that, by the law of nature, one generation is to another as one independent nation is to another. . . . The earth belongs always to the living generations.
Thomas Jefferson