If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Wine brightens the life and thinking of anyone

The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.