Difference of opinion leads to inquiry, and inquiry to the truth.

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

The persons and property of our citizens are entitled to the protection of our government in all places where they may lawfully go.

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.