The best defense of democracy is an informed electorate.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

It is to them I look, to the rising generation, and not to the one now in power, for these great reformations i.e., emancipation of slaves and settlement of the Virginia constitution on a firmer and more permanent basis.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

Dependence leads to subservience.

While old men feel sensibly enough their own advance in years, they do not sufficiently recollect it in those whom they have seenyoung.