One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

...in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy all of them

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

No person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.

Under the law of nature, all men are born free, every one comes into the world with a right to his own person, which includes the liberty of moving and using it at his own will. This is what is called personal liberty, and is given him by the Author

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.