Title page from The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786)

Part of: The Works of Thomas Jefferson, 12 vols. The Works, vol. 4 (Notes on Virginia II, Correspondence 1782-1786)

Volume 4 of the “Federal Edition” of Jefferson’s works in 12 volumes edited by Paul Leicester Ford in 1904-05. This volume contains various letters and papers as well as the second part of “Notes on Virginia” Jefferson’s only book-length work.

Key Quotes

Presidents, Kings, Tyrants, & Despots

Mankind soon learn to make interested uses of every right and power which they possess, or may assume. The public money and public liberty, intended to have been deposited with three branches of magistracy, but found inadvertently to be in the hands of one only, will soon be discovered to be…