A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

Government can do something for the people only in proportion as it can do something to the people.

Government governed least is government governed best.

Taxes should be continued by annual or biennial reeactments, because a constant hold, by the nation, of the strings of the public purse is a salutary restraint from which an honest government ought not wish, nor a corrupt one to be permitted, to be free.

If the body be feeble, the mind will not be strong.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.