Almighty God hath created the mind free. All attempts to influence it by temporal punishments or burthens...are a departure from the plan of the holy Author of our religion...No man shall be compelled to frequent or support religious worship or ministry or shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief, but all men shall be free to profess and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion. I know but one code of morality for men whether acting singly or collectively.

The Central Bank is an institution of the most deadly hostility existing against the principles and form of our Constitution.

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.

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

We act not for ourselves but for the whole human race. The event of our experiment is to show whether man can be trusted with self - government.

Error is to be pitied and pardoned: it is the weakness of human nature. But vice is a foul blemish, not pardonable in any character.