A government of laws, and not of men.

Mystery is made a convenient Cover for absurdity.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation: The doctrine of a supreme, intelligent sovereign of the universe, I believe to be the great essential principle of all morality, and consequently of all civilization.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

This oration will be read five hundred years hence with as much rapture as it was heard. It ought to be read at the end of every century, and indeed at the end of every year, forever and ever.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

A taste for literature and a turn for business, united in the same person, never fails to make a great man.