The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

The merchant has no country .

I never before knew the full value of trees....What would I not give that the trees planted nearest round the house at Monticello were full grown.

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.

Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

My opinion is that there would never have been an infidel, if there had never been a priest. The artificial structures they have built on the purest of all moral systems, for the purpose of deriving from it pence and power, revolts those who think for themselves, and who read in that system only what is really there.