Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

I hope the necessity will at length be seen of establishing institutions, here as in Europe, where every branch of science, useful at this day, may be taught in it's highest degrees.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Convinced that the people are the only safe depositories of their own liberty, and that they are not safe unless enlightened to a certain degree, I have looked on our present state of liberty as a short-lived possession unless the mass of the people could be informed to a certain degree.

No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.