If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to questi… - Thomas Jefferson

That one hundred and fifty lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected.

[I]f the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150 lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and to talk by the hour?

It is not by the consolidation or concentration, of powers, but by their distribution that good government is effected.

While the art of printing is left to us science can never be retrograde; what is once acquired of real knowledge can never be lost.

The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.