That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter.

If we restrict liberty to attain security we will lose them both.

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.

Outside Independence Hall when the Constitutional Convention of 1787 ended

Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths.

I think that humanity brings much misery on itself by the false value they put on things.

[E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country.