Thomas Jefferson Anchors Quotations

[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.