[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to Mathematics, avoiding company as the bane of all progress.

It is my disposition to maintain peace until its condition shall be made less tolerable than that of war itself.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God