[A]lthough a republican government is slow to move, yet when once in motion, its momentum becomes irresistible.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Health is worth more than learning.

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.

When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground.

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

To history therefore I must refer for answer, in which it would be an unhappy passage indeed, which should shew by what fatal indulgence of subordinate views and passions, a contest for an atom had defeated well founded prospects of giving liberty to half the globe.