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Quotes by
Americans "Nothing is more likely than that [the] enumeration of powers is defective. This is the ordinary case of all human works. Let us then go on perfecting it by adding by way of amendment to the Constitution those powers which time and trial show are still wanting." --Thomas Jefferson to Wilson Nicholas, 1803. ME 10:419 "We must be contented to travel on towards perfection, step by step. We must be contented with the ground which [the new] Constitution will gain for us, and hope that a favorable moment will come for correcting what is amiss in it." --Thomas Jefferson to the Count de Moustier, 1788. ME 7:13"Happy for us that when we find our constitutions defective and
insufficient to secure the happiness of our people, we can assemble
with all the coolness of philosophers and set it to rights, while
every other nation on earth must have recourse to arms to amend or to
restore their constitutions." --Thomas Jefferson to C. W. F. Dumas,
1787. ME 6:295, Papers 12:113
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