We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.


Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph (ed. 1829)

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it,...

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it,...

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it,...

We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it,...