Truth will do well enough if left to shift for herself.

Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.

If ever this vast country is brought under a single government, it will be one of the most extensive corruption, indifferent and incapable of a wholesome care over so wide a spread of surface. This will not be borne, and you will have to choose between reform and revolution. If I know the spirit of this country, the one or the other is inevitable.

Those who bear equally the burthens of Government should equally participate of its benefits.

A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.