Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error... They are the natural enemies of error, and of error only... If [free enquiry] be restrained now, the present corruptions will be protected, and new ones encouraged.

The cement of this union is the heart-blood of every American.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.

A lottery is a salutary instrument and a tax... laid on the willing only, that is to say, on those who can risk the price of a ticket without sensible injury, for the possibility of a higher prize.

Nothing but good can result from an exchange of information and opinions between those whose circumstances and morals admit no doubt of the integrity of their views.