No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.


Letter to James Madison [September 6,1789]

Thomas Jefferson Quotes

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.

No society can make a perpetual constitution, or even a perpetual law. The earth belongs always to the living generation.