Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

What has destroyed liberty and the rights of man in every government which has ever existed under the sun? The generalizing and concentrating all cares and power into one body, no matter whether of the autocrats of Russia or France, or of the aristocrats of a Venetian senate.

Knowledge indeed is a desirable, a lovely possession.

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

An occasional insurrection will not weigh against the inconveniences of a government of force, such as are monarchies and aristocracies.

Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence.