Politics are the divine science, after all.

Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion. . . . Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions. . . . The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

July 4th ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance by solemn acts of devotion.

As unbalanced parties of every description can never tolerate a free inquiry of any kind, when employed against themselves, the license, and even the most temperate freedom of the press, soon excite resentment and revenge.

Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.

I do not like the late resurrection of the Jesuits. . . . If ever any congregation of men could merit eternal perdition on earth, and in hell, according to these historians, though, like Pascal, true Catholics, it is this company of Loyolas.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.