Jefferson quote:

“[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several
branches of government by certain laws, which, when they
transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render
unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their
acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender
those rights.” –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia, 1782. Q.XIII

"If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it."

Thomas Jefferson May 9, 1798
Anybody have the tater's email address?? Maybe it's BarackHusseinObama@FUKCYO.gov