I have examined all religions, and the result is that the Bible is the best book in the world.

Government has no Right to hurt a hair of the head of an Atheist, for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

We are in the the very midst of a revolution, the most complete, unexpected and remarkable of any in the history of nations.

Popularity, next to virtue and wisdom, ought to be aimed at; for it is the dictate of wisdom, and is necessary to the practice of virtue inmost.

The good of the governed is the end, and rewards and punishments are the means, of all government. The government of the supreme and all-perfect Mind, over all his intellectual creation, is by proportioning rewards to piety and virtue, and punishments to disobedience and vice. ... The joys of heaven are prepared, and the horrors of hell in a future state, to render the moral government of the universe perfect and complete. Human government is more or less perfect, as it approaches nearer or diverges further from an imitation of this perfect plan of divine and moral government.

The executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them, to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men.