How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.

Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

From the nature of things, every society must at all times possess within itself the sovereign powers of legislation.

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