[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"book-none-tj124":3,"quote-tj124-en":4,"related-tj124-en":26},null,{"quote":5,"servedLocale":13,"availableLocales":14},{"number":6,"quote":7,"source":8,"image":9,"name":10,"app":11,"hashtag":12},124,"A permanent constitution must be the work of quiet, leisure, much inquiry, and great deliberation.","Letter to David Harding [1823]","jefferson","Thomas Jefferson","TFFF","#Jefferson","en",[15,13,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25],"de","es","fr","hu","it","ja","ko","nl","pl","pt","ru",[27,31,34,37,40,43],{"number":28,"quote":29,"qtype":30},125,"Speeches measured by the hour die with the hour.","tj",{"number":32,"quote":33,"qtype":30},123,"The laws of civil society, indeed, for the encouragement of industry, give the property of the parent to his family on his death, and in most civilized countries permit him even to give it, by testament, to whom he pleases.",{"number":35,"quote":36,"qtype":30},126,"Nothing... is unchangeable but the inherent and unalienable rights of man.",{"number":38,"quote":39,"qtype":30},122,"The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend all to the happiness of man.",{"number":41,"quote":42,"qtype":30},127,"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.",{"number":44,"quote":45,"qtype":30},121,"That, on the principle of a communion of property, small societies may exist in habits of virtue, order, industry, and peace, and consequently in a state of as much happiness as Heaven has been pleased to deal out to imperfect humanity, I can readily conceive, and indeed, have seen its proofs in various small societies which have been constituted on that principle. But I do not feel authorized to conclude from these that an extended society, like that of the United States or of an individual State, could be governed happily on the same principle."]