"Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself."

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

"An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens."

"I sincerely believe, with you, that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies; and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but …"

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical."