And even should the cloud of barbarism and despotism again obscure the science and libraries of Europe, this country remains to preserve and restore light and liberty to them.

Your own reason is the only oracle given to you by God.

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.

I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain.

music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.

The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God, like another Cerberus, with one body and three heads, had its birth and growth in the blood of thousands and thousands of martyrs.

Where the press is free and every man able to read, all is safe.