Single acts of tyranny may be ascribed to the accidental opinion of the day; but a series of oppressions, begun at a distinguished period, and pursued unalterably through every change of ministers (adminstrators) too plainly proves a deliberate, systematic plan of reducing us to slavery.

If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

I am myself an empiric in natural philosophy, suffering my faith to go no further than my facts. I am pleased, however, to see the efforts of hypothetical speculation, because by the collisions of different hypotheses, truth may be elicited and science advanced in the end.

The federal government is our servant, not our master.

Every honest man will suppose honest acts to flow from honest principles, and the rogues may rail without intermission.

The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.