Modesty is a virtue that can never thrive in public.

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

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

There are only two creatures of value on the face of the earth: those with the commitment, and those who require the commitment of others.

Set before us the conduct of our own British ancestors, who defended for us the inherent rights of mankind against foreign and domestic tyrants and usurpers, against arbitrary kings and cruel priests; in short against the gates of earth and hell.

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.