There cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man may not justly demand a reason.

Words, in their primary or immediate signification, stand for nothing but the ideas in the mind of him who uses them.

The care of souls cannot belong to the civil magistrate.

The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its author; salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure.

Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society and made by the legislative power vested in it and not to be subject to the inconstant, uncertain, arbitrary will of another man.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

We are born with faculties and powers capable almost of anything, such at least as would carry us farther than can easily be imagined: but it is only the exercise of those powers, which gives us ability and skill in any thing, and leads us towards perfection.