The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

We shall all consider ourselves unauthorized to saddle posterity with our debts, and morally bound to pay them ourselves; and consequently within what may be deemed the period of a generation, or the life of the majority.

A judiciary independent of a king or executive alone, is a good thing; but independence of the will of the nation is a solecism, at least in a republican government.

If I had to choose between government without newspapers, and newspapers without government, I wouldn't hesitate to choose the latter

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

The application requisite to the duties of the office I hold [governor of Virginia] is so excessive, and the execution of them after all so imperfect, that I have determined to retire from it at the close of the present campaign.

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.