I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care o… - Thomas Jefferson

To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

War is an instrument entirely inefficient toward redressing wrong; and multiplies, instead of indemnifying losses.

Knowing that religion does not furnish grosser bigots than law, I expect little from old judges.