I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

The proscribing any citizen as unworthy the public confidence by laying upon him an incapacity of being called to offices of trust and emolument unless he profess or renounce this or that religious opinion is depriving him injuriously of those privileges and advantages to which, in common with his fellow citizens, he has a natural right.

We must use a good deal of economy in our wood, never cutting down new, where we can make the old do.

The equal rights of man and the happiness of every individual are now acknowledged to be the only legitimate objects of government.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

A free government is of all others the most energetic.

How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of his energies to selfish interests.