"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."

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

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions of the people, have become a very formidable engine against the civil rights and liberties of man."

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."