To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it.

It is strangely absurd to suppose that a million of human beings, collected together, are not under the same moral laws which bind each of them separately.

The power of making war often prevents it.

[The people] are in truth the only legitimate proprietors of the soil and government.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

Each generation has a right to choose for itself the form of government it believes most promotive of its happiness.