Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

The private buildings [of Virginia] are very rarely constructed of stone or brick; much the greatest proportion being of scantlingand boards, plastered with lime. It is impossible to devise things more ugly, uncomfortable, and happily more perishable.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

No society can make a perpetual constitution... The earth belongs always to the living generation.