"I must comfort myself with the hope that the judges will see the importance and

the duty of giving their country

the only evidence they can give of fidelity to its Constitution and integrity in the administration of its laws; that is
to say, by everyone's giving his opinion seriatim and publicly on the cases he decides. Let him prove by his reasoning that
he has read the papers, that he has considered the case, that in the application of the law to it, he uses his own
judgment independently and unbiased by party views and personal favor or disfavor. Throw himself in every case
on God and country; both conclave begets suspicions that something passes which fears the public ear, and this,
spreading by degrees, must produce at some time abridgement of tenure, facility of removal, or some other
modification which may promise a remedy." Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823
I do not charge the judges with wilful and ill-intentioned error; but honest error must be arrested where its toleration
leads to public ruin. As for the safety of society, we commit honest maniacs to Bedlam; so judges should be withdrawn
from their bench whose erroneous biases are leading us to dissolution. It may, indeed, injure them in fame or in
fortune; but it saves the republic, which is the first and supreme law." -- Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821