All persons shall have full and free liberty of religious opinion; nor shall any be compelled to frequent or maintain any religious institution.

The constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruption's of time and party, its members would become despots.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

It is a problem, not clear in my mind, that [a society without government, as among our Indians] is not the best. But I believe it to be inconsistent with any great degree of population.

Our legislators are not sufficiently apprized of the rightful limits of their power; that their true office is to declare and enforce only our natural rights and duties, and to take none of them from us.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix the principles and practices of virtue.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.