To believe all men honest is folly. To believe none is something worse.

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

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.

Children should be educated and instructed in the principles of freedom.

[You have Rights] antecedent to all earthly governments: Rights, that cannot be repealed or restrained by human laws; Rights, derived from the Great Legislator of the universe.

God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.