It is the duty of every man to render to the Creator such homage and such only as he believes to be acceptable to him. This duty is precedent, both in order of time and in degree of obligation, to the claims of Civil Society.

The very definition of tyranny is when all powers are gathered under one place.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.