Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

A mind always employed is always happy.

Power is not alluring to pure minds.

Every man's reason is his own rightful umpire. This principle, with that of acquiescence in the will of the majority, will preserve us free and prosperous as long as they are sacredly observed.

That government that governs least governs best.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.