It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

They can make no law which will not have its full operation on themselves and their friends, as well as on the great mass of the society.

Torrents of blood have been spilt in the world in vain attempts of the secular arm to extinguish religious discord, by proscribing all differences in religious opinions.

A bad cause seldom fails to betray itself.

Whenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.

The civil Government, though bereft of every thing like an associated hierarchy, possesses the requisite stability, and performs its functions with complete success; whilst the number, the industry, and the morality of the Priesthood, and the devotion of the people, have been manifestly increased by the total separation of the church from the State.

Despotism can only exist in darkness.