the execution of the laws is more important than the making them.

Congress has just risen, having done nothing remarkable, except passing a tariff bill, by squeezing majorities, very revolting to a great portion of the people of the states, among whom, it is believed, it would not have recieved a vote but of the manufactories manufactorers themselves. it is...

The interests of a nation, when well understood, will be found to coincide with their moral duties. among these it is an important one to cultivate habits of peace & friendship with our neighbors. to do this we should make provision for rendering the justice we must sometimes require from...

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. that body, like Gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, & unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulphing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them. the recent...

but time produces also corruption of principles, and against this it is the duty of good citizens to be ever on the watch.

A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.

A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.

A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.

A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.

A quotation commonly misattributed to Thomas Jefferson.