The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.
Thomas JeffersonNo society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.
Thomas JeffersonNothing is more certainly written in the book of fate than that these people are to be free. Nor is it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of distinction between them.
Thomas Jefferson