Never use one word when two will do.

The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.

The parent storms, the child looks on, catches the lineaments of wrath, puts on the same airs in the circle of smaller slaves, gives a loose to the worst of passions, and thus nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny, cannot but be stamped by it with odious peculiarities.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Our minds and hearts are free to believe everything or nothing at all - and it is our duty to protect and perpetuate this sacred culture of freedom.

I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.