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.

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

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

The moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as that of feeling, seeing, or hearing.

Never buy what you do not want, because it is cheap; it will be dear to you.