That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

He alone who walks strict and upright, and who, in matters of opinion, will be contented that others should be as free as himself and acquiesce when his opinion is freely overruled, will attain his object in the end.

I hope we shall . . . crush in [its] birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

For themselves they fought, for themselves they conquered, and for themselves alone they have they have right to hold.

The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

The purpose of establishing different houses of legislation is to introduce the influence of different interests or different principles.