There is a degree of depravity in mankind which requires a certain degree of circumspection and distrust.

As a man is said to have a right to his property, he may be equally said to have a property in his rights.

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

I have ever regarded the freedom of religious opinions and worship as equally belonging to every sect.

It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage...Before any man can be considered as a member of Civil Society, he must be considered as a subject of the Governor of the Universe.

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.

A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent enthusiasts.