Thomas Jefferson on the proper placing of one's confidence in political matters

It is neither in a political party, a congress, a president, nor a court that we should place our trust, but we must force our elected officials to obey the rule of law, especially the United States' Constitution, which they've sworn to protect:

"In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution."

-Thomas Jefferson