There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.
Thomas JeffersonThe rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.
Thomas JeffersonTaxation is, in fact, the most difficult function of government and that against which their citizens are most apt to be refractory.
Thomas Jefferson