Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

I could think of no worse example for nations abroad, who for the first time were trying to put free electoral procedures into effect, than that of the United States wrangling over the results of our presidential election, and even suggesting that the presidency itself could be stolen by thievery at the ballot box.

I would rather have newspapers without a government than a government without newspapers.