My History of the Jesuits is in four volumes.... This society has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

Liberty, once lost, is lost forever.

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

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.

Yesterday, the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, that those United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.

We have no Constitution which functions in the absence of a moral people