A properly functioning democracy depends on an informed electorate.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

I have learned to be less confident in the conclusions of human reason, and give more credit to the honesty of contrary opinions.

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.

The best commentary on the principles of government which has ever been written.

Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.