I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.

To penetrate and dissipate these clouds of darkness, the general mind must be strengthened by education.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

... the common law existed while the Anglo-Saxons were yet pagans, at a time when they had never yet heard the name of Christ pronounced or knew that such a character existed.

One single object . . . [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation.

It is a cruel thought, that, when we feel ourselves standing on the firmest ground in every respect, the cursed arts of our secret enemies, combining with other causes, should effect, by depreciating our money, what the open arms of a powerful enemy could not.