Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.
The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.
It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.