[wafflehouse]

"Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have
removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the
people that these liberties are of the gift of God?"
--Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782.

"If once [the people] become inattentive to the public affairs,
you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, Judges and Governors,
shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general
nature, in spite of individual exceptions."
--Thomas Jefferson to Edward Carrington, 1787.

"Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there
government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and
life and property are his who can take them."
--Thomas Jefferson to Annapolis Citizens, 1809.

[sweetliberty]

"Where the law of the majority ceases to be acknowledged, there government ends; the law of the strongest takes its place, and life and property are his who can take them." --Thomas Jefferson to Annapolis Citizens, 1809.'

That is the one that concerns me.