"An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental." --Thomas Jefferson to George Hay, 1807. ME 11:341
"It is certainly for the good of the whole nation to assimilate as much as possible all its parts, to strengthen their analogies, obliterate the traits of difference, and to deal law and justice to all by the same rule and the same measure." --Thomas Jefferson: Batture at New Orleans, 1812. ME 18:80
"We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of rights; that without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience." --Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:199
"The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes." --Thomas Jefferson to Mrs. Sarah Mease, 1801. FE 8:35