There is a report in circulation that Mr Jefferson is agoing to live at ...

I shall give over reading newspapers. they are so false & so intemperate that they disturb tranquility without giving information.

The house was in an unfinished state, and when Mr. Seymour observed it, Mr. Jefferson replied—“And I hope it will remain so during my life, as architecture is my delight, and putting up, and pulling down, one of my favourite amusements.”

the station which we occupy among the nations of the earth ... the only monument of human rights, & the sole depository of the sacred fire of freedom & self-government

all these concerns I am now leaving to be settled by my friend mr Madison. within a few days I retire to my family, my books, & farms & having gained the harbor myself, I shall look on my friends still buffeting the storm, with anxiety indeed, but not with envy. never did prisoner,...

aware of the tendency of power to degenerate into abuse, the worthies of our own country have secured it’s independence by the establishment of a constitution & form of Government for our nation calculated to prevent as well as to correct abuse.

I shall retire into the bosom of my native state, endeared to me by every tie which can attach the human heart.

No provision in our constitution ought to be dearer to man, than that which protects the rights of conscience against the enterprizes of the civil authority.

it was one of the rules which above all others made Doctr Franklin the most amiable of men in society, ‘never to contradict any body.’

a recollection of our former vassalage in religion & civil government, will unite the zeal of every heart, & the energy of every hand, to preserve that independance in both.