If it is believed that these elementary schools will be better managed by the governor and council or any other general authority of the government, than by the parents within each ward, it is a belief against all experience.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

A little rebellion now and then... is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government.