Thomas Jefferson
- Happiness
I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them.
Alexander Hamilton
- Natural rights
The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments of musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, in a whole volume of human nature, by the hand of divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power.
