Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.
Thomas JeffersonThe provisions we have made [for our government] are such as please ourselves; they answer the substantial purposes of government and of justice, and other purposes than these should not be answered.
Thomas JeffersonMen possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.
Thomas Jefferson