Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.
Thomas JeffersonAnd where else will [Hume,] this degenerate son of science, this traitor to his fellow men, find the origin of just powers, if not in the majority of the society? Will it be in the minority? Or in an individual of that minority?
Thomas JeffersonThe merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.
Thomas JeffersonNo person shall be restrained of his liberty but by regular process from a court of justice, authorized by a general law. . . . On complaint of an unlawful imprisonment to any judge whatsoever, he shall have the prisoner immediately brought before him and shall discharge him if his imprisonment be unlawful. The officer in whose custody the prisoner is shall obey the order of the judge, and both judge and officer shall be responsible civilly and criminally for a failure of duty herein.
Thomas Jefferson