What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.