Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

Industry, commerce and security are the surest roads to the happiness and prosperity of people.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

May it be to the world... to assume the blessings and security of self-government.

Doubts and jealousies often beget the facts they fear.

I really look with commiseration over the great body of my fellow citizens who, reading newspapers, live and die in the belief that they have known something of what has been passing in their times.

Men fight for freedom; then they begin to accumulate laws to take it away from themselves.