Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power.

We shall, by and by, want a world of hemp more for our own consumption.

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

The idea of infidelity [a disbelief in the inspiration of the Scriptures or the divine origin of Christianity] cannot be treated with too much resentment or too much horror. The man who can think of it with patience is a traitor in his heart and ought to be execrated [denounced] as one who adds the deepest hypocrisy to the blackest treason.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen