The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

I fancy it must be the quantity of animal food eaten by the English which renders their character insusceptible to civilization. I suspect it is in their kitchens and not in their churches that the reformation must be worked.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

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