Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence.

Oppressors can tyrannize only when they achieve a standing army, an enslaved press, and a disarmed populace.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.

The political truths declared in that solemn manner acquire by degrees the character of fundamental maxims of free Government, and as they become incorporated with national sentiment, counteract the impulses of interest and passion.

Democracy was the right of the people to choose their own tyrant.

Whilst we assert for ourselves a freedom to embrace, to profess and observe the Religion which we believe to be of divine origin, we cannot deny equal freedom to those whose minds have not yet yielded to the evidence which has convinced us. If this freedom be abused, it is an offense against God, not against man:To God, therefore, not to man, must an account of it be rendered.