Health is worth more than learning.

Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

[The purpose of a written constitution is] to bind up the several branches of government by certain laws, which, when they transgress, their acts shall become nullities; to render unnecessary an appeal to the people, or in other words a rebellion, on every infraction of their rights, on the peril that their acquiescence shall be construed into an intention to surrender those rights.

The religion-builders have so distorted and deformed the doctrines of Jesus, so muffled them in mysticism, fancies, and falsehoods.

If a sect arises whose tenets would subvert morals, good sense has fair play and reasons and laughs it out of doors without suffering the State to be troubled with it.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.