"When a man has enclosed and improved his farm, builds a good house on it and raised plentiful stocks of animals, he will wish when he dies that these things shall go to his wife and children, whom he loves more than he does his other relations, and for whom he will work with pleasure during his life. You will, therefore, find it necessary to establish laws for this.Jefferson quote source: To the Chiefs of the Cherokee Nation. Washington, January 10, 1806.
When a man has property, earned by his own labor, he will not like to see another come and take it from him because he happens to be stronger, or else to defend it by spilling blood."
Showing posts with label Laws. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Laws. Show all posts
Tuesday
On Taxes. Estate, Death, and Otherwise
Sunday
On Crime
"It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them."(Emphasis added to Jefferson quote by Double Birds)
Jefferson quote source: A Bill for Proportioning Crimes and Punishments, Section XXVIII, footnote.
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