An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
Thomas JeffersonExercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends
Thomas JeffersonSome men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the Covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.
Thomas Jefferson