Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

If the freedom of religion, guaranteed to us by law in theory, can ever rise in practice under the overbearing inquisition of public opinion, [then and only then will truth]prevail over fanaticism.

A right to property is founded in our natural wants, in the means with which we are endowed to satisfy these wants, and the right to what we acquire by those means without violating the similar rights of other sensible beings.

I have nothing but contempt for anyone who can spell a word in only one way.