Every man has two countries: his own and France.

The merchants will manage [commerce] the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

The dominion which the banking institutions have obtained over the minds of our citizens...must be broken, or it will break us.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.