Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.

It is for the benefit of mankind to mitigate the horrors of war as much as possible.

It is better to have no ideas than false ones.

If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.