I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills sone-third of our citizens and ruins their families.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

Ignorance is a poor tool in a battle of wits.

One man with courage is a majority.