To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

I do not like the reappearance of the Jesuits... Nevertheless, we are compelled by our system of religious toleration to offer them an asylum.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

The government of the United States of America has in itself no character of enmity against the laws, religion or tranquility of Muslims.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

My God! This is a revolution! We have to offend someone!

Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.