Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves, therefore, are its only safe depositories.
US Founding Father, Declaration of Independence
Notes on the State of Virginia, Query XVII, 'Religion'
1785
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"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
Strange & Unusual"The democracy which I have been so long laboring to establish in Virginia has received its death-wound from the present session of Assembly."
Humorous"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other."
Strange & Unusual"I have no doubt but that the misery of the poor, in great cities, is one of the greatest misfortunes to society."
Controversial"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."
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