Evils we have had continually calling for reformation, and reformations more grievous than any evils.

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

Art is a partnership not only between those who are living but between those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.

If any ask me what a free government is, I answer, that, for any practical purpose, it is what the people think so,and that they, and not I, are the natural, lawful, and competent judges of this matter.

Those who quit their proper character to assume what does not belong to them are, for the greater part, ignorant both of the character they leave and of the character they assume.

There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit.

Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind.