[jdege]

Much as I like Thomas Jefferson's prose, and for as little regard as I have for Alexander Hamilton, on this point Hamilton turned the better phrase:

The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I had never seen that Hamilton quote before. Beautiful.