I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

But under the beaming, constant and almost vertical sun of Virginia, shade is our Elysium. In the absence of this no beauty of the eye can be enjoyed.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

Printers shall be liable to legal prosecution for printing and publishing false facts injurious to the party prosecuting: but they shall be under no other restraint.

We have solved, by fair experiment, the great and interesting question whether freedom of religion is compatible with order in government and obedience to the laws. And we have experienced the quiet as well as the comfort which results from leaving every one to profess freely and openly those principles of religion which are the inductions of his own reason and the serious convictions of his own inquiries.

preach, my dear Sir, a crusade against ignorance; establish & improve the law for educating the common people.

I... [am] convinced [man] has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.