"The democracy which I have been so long laboring to establish in Virginia has received its death-wound from the present session of Assembly."

"We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

"I am persuaded myself that the good sense of the people will always be found to be the best army. They may be led astray for a moment, but will soon correct themselves."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."