Couple More Jefferson Quotes

"Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. "
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Wilson Nicholas, September 7, 1803

"Though written constitutions may be violated in moments of passion or delusion, yet they furnish a text to which those who are watchful may again rally and recall the people. They fix, too, for the people the principles of their political creed." --Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Priestley, 1802. ME 10:325