A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

The sentiments of men are known not only by what they receive, but what they reject also.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.

Gouverneur Morris had often told me that General Washington believed no more of that system (Christianity) than did he himself.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

By... [selecting] the youths of genius from among the classes of the poor, we hope to avail the State of those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use if not sought for and cultivated.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.