We will be soldiers, so our sons may be farmers, so their sons may be artists

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Our ancestors ... were laborers, not lawyers.

Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.

Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

If anything pass in a religious meeting seditiously and contrary to the public peace, let it be punished in the same manner and no otherwise than as if it had happened in a fair or market.