If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

The latent causes of faction are thus sown in the nature of man.

Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect. [...] Equal laws protecting equal rights, are found as they ought to be presumed, the best guarantee of loyalty, and love of country; as well as best calculated to cherish that mutual respect and good will among citizens of every religious denomination which are necessary to social harmony and most favorable to the advancement of truth.

Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of everything.

Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at Philadelphia is the most abominable and degrading that could fall from the lips of the first magistrate of an independent people, and particularly from a Revolutionary patriot.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.