Founder’s Quote

“An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.” […]

“Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which […]

“Congress shall make no law … prohibiting … the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” […]

“Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.”—Thomas Jefferson (1801)