Man Is Not Made For

The Only Greater [evil] Than Separation... [is] Living Under A Government Of Discretion.

There Are Two Subjects, Indeed, Which I Shall Claim A Right To Further As Long As I Breathe: The Public Education, And The Sub-division Of Counties Into Wards. I Consider The Continuance Of Republican Government As Absolutely Hanging On These Two Hooks.

A Professorship Of Theology Should Have No Place In Our Institution [the University Of Virginia]

Truth Is Great And Will Prevail If Left To Herself.

I View Great Cities As Pestilential To The Morals, The Health And The Liberties Of Man. True, They Nourish Some Of The Elegant Arts; But The Useful Ones Can Thrive Elsewhere; And Less Perfection In The Others, With More Health, Virtue And Freedom, Would Be My Choice.