Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant our attachment to liberty.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

So much of the presidency is a matter of standing in the path of a Newsham Engine for Quenching Fires, opening one's mouth, and attempting to get a drink.

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.