I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.
Thomas JeffersonEvery State has a natural right in cases not within the compact (casus non faederis) to nullify of their own authority all assumptions of power by others within their limits. Without this right, they would be under the dominion, absolute and unlimited, of whosoever might exercise this right of judgment for them.
Thomas JeffersonThe fore horse of this frightful team is public debt. Taxation follow that, and in its turn wretchedness and oppression.
Thomas JeffersonIt is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.
Thomas Jefferson