I have sworn upon the altar of god.

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

To constrain the brute force of the people, the European governments deem it necessary to keep them down by hard labor, poverty and ignorance, and to take from them, as from bees, so much of their earnings, as that unremitting labor shall be necessary to obtain a sufficient surplus to sustain a scanty and miserable life.

Leave no authority existing not responsible to the people.

Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends

What an augmentation of the field for jobbing, speculating, plundering, office-building and office-hunting would be produced by an assumption of all the state powers into the hands of the general government.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.