We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honour.

A little revolution is a good thing.

An enlightened citizenry is indispensable for the proper functioning of a republic. Self-government is not possible unless the citizens are educated sufficiently to enable them to exercise oversight. It is therefore imperative that the nation see to it that a suitable education be provided for all its citizens.

To be really useful, we must keep pace with the state of society, and not dishearten it by attempts at what its population, means, or occupations will fail in attempting.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

A professorship of Theology should have no place in our institution [the University of Virginia]