I had no idea, however, that in Pennsylvania, the cradle of toleration and freedom of religion, it [fanaticism] could have arisen to the height you describe. This must be owing to the growth of Presbyterianism. The blasphemy of the five points of Calvin, and the impossibility of defending them, render their advocates impatient of reasoning, irritable, and prone to denunciation.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

I tolerate with the utmost latitude the right of others to differ from me in opinion without imputing to them criminality.

Certain teachings in the Bible are as diamonds in a dung-heap.

Do not be too severe upon the errors of the people, but reclaim them by enlightening them.