Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

The art of making love, muffled up in furs, in the open air, with the thermometer at Zero, is a Yankee invention.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

We understand now, we've been made to understand, and to embrace the understanding that who we are is who we were.

The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . . of universal application-laws essential to the existence of men in society, and most of which have been enacted by every nation which ever professed any code of laws.

Those who take oaths to politically powerful secret societies cannot be depended on for loyalty to a democratic republic.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.