![]() "The laws of the land are the inheritance and the right of every man before whatever tribunal he is brought." -Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Stevens Case, 1804. 'All the tranquility, the happiness and security of mankind rest on justice, on the obligation to respect the rights of others.'" -Thomas Jefferson: Opinion on French Treaties, 1793. "It is certainly for the good of the whole nation to assimilate as much as possible all its parts, to strengthen their analogies, obliterate the traits of difference, and to deal law and justice to all by the same rule and the same measure." -Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812. ![]() "An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental." -Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 1807. "Justice is the fundamental law of society." -Thomas Jefferson to Pierre Samuel Dupont de Nemours, 1816. "Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political, I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its administration." -Thomas Jefferson: 1st Inaugural Address, 1801. "Law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual." -Thomas Jefferson to Isaac H. "Were it made a question, whether no law, as among the savage Americans, or too much law, as among the civilized Europeans, submits man to the greatest evil, one who has seen both conditions of existence would pronounce it to be the last and that the sheep are happier of themselves, than under care of the wolves." -Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XI, 1782. "It is the duty of the General Government to guard its subordinate members from the encroachments of each other, even when they are made through error or inadvertence, and to cover its citizens from the exercise of powers not authorized by law." -Thomas Jefferson: Official Opinion, 1790. "The most sacred of the duties of a government to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." -Thomas Jefferson: Note in Destutt de Tracy, "Political Economy," 1816. It is of inestimable importance to the happiness and security of the people that justice be administered strictly, according to the established forms of the law. A just society rests upon an equal application of the law to each and every citizen it protects the rights of individuals regardless of the inconveniences caused thereby. The system of justice will either protect citizens from tyranny or be one means by which tyranny is exercised over them. Thomas Jefferson on Politics & Government Jefferson on Politics & Government: Justice System
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