The doctrines of Jesus are simple, and tend to all the happiness of man.

Man is fed with fables through life, and leaves it in the belief he knows something of what has been passing, when in truth he knows nothing but what has passed under his own eyes.

He, who steadily observes those moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

All the States but our own are sensible that knowlege is power.

I am for relying for internal defense on our militia solely till actual invasion, and for such a naval force only as may protect our coasts and harbors from such depredations as we have experienced; and not for a standing army in time of peace which may overawe the public sentiment; nor for a navy which, by its own expenses and the eternal wars in which it will implicate us, will grind us with public burthens and sink us under them.

An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.