One imputation in particular has been repeated till it seems as if some at least believed it: that I am an enemy to commerce. They admit me a friend of agriculture, and suppose me an enemy to the only means of disposing of its produce.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Money, not morality, constitutes the principle of commercial nations.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.