Were we directed from Washington when to sow and when to reap, we should soon want bread.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

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.

History, I believe, furnishes no example of a priest-ridden people maintaining a free civil government.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

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

Merchants have no country.