T. Jefferson quoted in other context than the old favorite in a letter about “wall of separation,” here warning about “domiciliary vexation” (!):
“At home, fellow citizens, you best know whether we have done well or ill. The suppression of unnecessary offices, of useless establishments and expenses, enabled us to discontinue our internal taxes. These covering our land with officers, and opening our doors to their intrusions, had already begun that process of domiciliary vexation which, once entered, is scarcely to be restrained from reaching successively every article of produce and property.”
Unnecessary offices, eh? Useless establishments and expenses, eh? Covering our land with officers . . . opening our doors to their intrusions, eh?
That, fellow citizens, is domiciliary vexation. We must guard against it, eh?
Blithe Spirit 