"On
every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the
Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and
instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented
against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed." --Thomas
Jefferson, letter to William Johnson, 1823
"If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free ... it expects what never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Saturday, May 5, 2012
"During the course of administration, and
in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been levelled against
us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These
abuses of an institution so important to freedom and science are deeply to be
regretted, inasmuch as they tend to lessen its usefulness and to sap its
safety." --Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, 1805
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