Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

I shall need, too, the favor of that Being in whose hands we are, who led our forefathers, as Israel of old.

I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or criticisms, just or unjust, of our citizens against the conduct of their agents.

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

The several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.