What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.
The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.
Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality
The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
[T]o preserve the republican form and principles of our Constitution and cleave to the salutary distribution of powers which that [the Constitution] has established . . . are the two sheet anchors of our Union. If driven from either, we shall be in danger of foundering.