The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"[W]here there is no law, there is no liberty; and nothing deserves
the name of law but that which is certain and universal in its
operation upon all the members of the community."

-- Benjamin Rush (letter to David Ramsay, Circa April 1788)

Reference: Letters of Benjamin Rush, Butterfield, ed., vol. 1 (454)

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"His person, you know, was fine, his stature exactly what one
would wish, his deportment easy, erect and noble."

-- Thomas Jefferson (on George Washington in a letter to Dr. Walter
Jones, 2 January 1814)

Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America
(1319)

The Patriot Post
Founders' Quote Daily

"All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though
the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to
be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their
equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would
be oppression."

-- Thomas Jefferson (First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801)

Reference: Jefferson: Writings, Peterson ed., Library of America
(492-93)