God grant that men of principle shall be our principal men.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

To take a single step beyond the text would be to take possession of a boundless field of power.

the qualifications for self-government in society are not innate. they are the result of habit and long training.

By oft repeating an untruth, men come to believe it themselves.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.