My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

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

ONLY a government that is AFRAID of its citizens tries to control them.

The issue for patents for new discovers has given a spring to invention beyond my conception.

The Bible makes the best people in the world.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction; that to suffer the civil magistrate to intrude his powers into the field of opinion and to restrain the profession or propagation of principles on supposition of their ill tendency is a dangerous falacy, which at once destroys all religious liberty...