We think, in America, that it is necessary to introduce the people into every department of government, as far as they are capable of exercising it, and that this is the only way to ensure a long continued and honest administration of its powers.

If any doubt has arisen as to me, my country [Virginia] will have my political creed in the form of a "Declaration &c." which I was lately directed to draw. This will give decisive proof that my own sentiment concurred with the vote they instructed us to give.

It is an axiom in my mind that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain degree of instruction. This it is the business of the state to effect, and on a general plan.

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

The present generation has the same right of self-government which the past one has exercised for itself.

Don't spend your money till you have it.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.