Take not from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

Dependence leads to subservience.

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .