We are firmly convinced, and we act on that conviction, that with nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties, and history bears witness to the fact that a just nation is trusted on its word when recourse is had to armaments and wars to bridle others.
Thomas JeffersonOur peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction.
Thomas JeffersonThat one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.
Thomas Jefferson