The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

The benefit of even limited monopolies is too doubtful, to be opposed to that of their general suppression.

I considered 4 of these bills [of the revised code of Virginia] as forming a system by which every fibre would be eradicated of antient or future aristocracy; and a foundation laid for a government truly republican.

A share in the sovereignty of the state, which is exercised by the citizens at large, in voting at elections is one of the most important rights of the subject, and in a republic ought to stand foremost in the estimation of the law.

Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.