"To compel a man to furnish contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he disbelieves and abhors, is sinful and tyrannical."

"I own I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive."

"The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave."

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

"I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere."