By making this wine known to the public, I have rendered my country as great a service as if I had enabled it to pay back the national debt.

If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College] or Cambridge [Harvard College]. The latter will return them to us as fanatics and tories, the former will keep them to add to their population.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.