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.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.

Always stand on principle even if you stand alone.

I am a revolutionary, so my son can be a farmer, so his son can be a poet.

A single assembly is liable to all the vices, follies, and frailties of an individual; subject to fits of humor, starts of passion, flights of enthusiasm, partialities, or prejudice, and consequently productive of hasty results and absurd judgments. And all these errors ought to be corrected and defects supplied by some controlling power.