The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

I am savage enough to prefer the woods, the wilds, and the independence of Monticello, to all the brilliant pleasures of this gaycapital [Paris].

Against us are all timid men who prefer the calm of despotism to the boisterous sea of liberty We are likely to preserve the liberty we have obtained only by unremitting labors and perils.

The olive tree is surely the richest gift of Heaven. I can scarcely expect bread.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.