Jefferson was pro-natural rights and anti-force

Thomas Jefferson wrote to Francis W. Gilmer in 1816:
"Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights . . . and to take none of them from us. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him . . . and the idea is quite unfounded, that on entering into society we give up any natural right."

Jefferson knew best

Thomas Jefferson, one of the very few who were actually good at being president, knew the dangers of war and of centralized banking. He reduced the size of the army and the navy, and said "we must stay out of Europe, they are nations of eternal war."

He was also suspicious of the power of judges and the power of central banking. If he could see the Fed today, he'd have a stroke. He said:

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a monied aristocracy that has set the government at defiance. The issuing power (of money) should be taken away from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs."