Peace 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 a misnomer to call a government republican in which a branch of the supreme power is independent of the nation.
Thomas JeffersonI have the consolation of having added nothing to my private fortune during my public service, and of retiring with hands clean as they are empty.
Thomas JeffersonTo take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.
Thomas Jefferson