Erecting the 'wall of separation between church and state'... is absolutely essential in a free society.

Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

The opinions of men should not be the object of any government. Our civil rights are no more dependent on our religious beliefs than they are dependent upon our thoughts about geometry or physics!

The superiority of chocolate (hot chocolate), both for health and nourishment, will soon give it the same preference over tea and coffee in America which it has in Spain.

Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.