Government governed least is government governed best.

The tender breasts of ladies were not formed for political convulsion.

Among the most inestimable of our blessings is that ... of liberty to worship our Creator in the way we think most agreeable to His will; a liberty deemed in other countries incompatible with good government and yet proved by our experience to be its best support.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.... Reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free inquiry must be indulged.... Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them.

Hemp is of first necessity to the wealth & protection of the country.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.