I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

No one has a right to obstruct another exercising his faculties innocently for the relief of sensibilities made a part of his nature.

We lay it down as a fundamental, that laws, to be just, must give a reciprocation of right; that, without this, they are mere arbitrary rules of conduct, founded in force, and not in conscience.

Freedom, the first-born of science.