A generation may bind itself as long as its majority continues in life; when that has disappeared, another majority is in place, holds all the rights and powers their predecessors once held, and may change their laws and institutions to suit themselves. Nothing then is unchangeable but the inherent and inalienable rights of man.

That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain.

The opinions and beliefs of men follow involuntarily the evidence proposed to their minds.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.

It is better to tolerate the rare instance of a parent refusing to let his child be educated, than to shock the common feelings and ideas by forcible asportation and education of the infant against the will of the father.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.