The Constitution on which our Union rests, shall be administered by me [as President] according to the safe and honest meaning contemplated by the plain understanding of the people of the United States at the time of its adoption - a meaning to be found in the explanations of those who advocated, not those who opposed it, and who opposed it merely lest the construction should be applied which they denounced as possible.
Thomas JeffersonPeace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.
Thomas JeffersonIt is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Thomas JeffersonThe Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson