Let the human mind loose. It must be loose. It will be loose. Superstition and dogmatism cannot confine it.

I shall have liberty to think for myself without molesting others or being molested myself.

I almost shudder at the thought of alluding to the most fatal example of the abuses of grief which the history of mankind has preserved - the Cross. Consider what calamities that engine of grief has produced!

Thomas Jefferson survives.

Everything in life should be done with reflection.

It already appears, that there must be in every society of men superiors and inferiors, because God has laid in the constitution and course of nature the foundations of the distinction.

The only foundation of a free Constitution, is pure Virtue, and if this cannot be inspired into our People, in a great Measure, than they have it now. They may change their Rulers, and the forms of Government, but they will not obtain a lasting Liberty.