A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

The great object of my fear is the federal judiciary. That body, like gravity, ever acting, with noiseless foot, and unalarming advance, gaining ground step by step, and holding what it gains, is ingulfing insidiously the special governments into the jaws of that which feeds them.

This is perhaps the most important statement on religion ever made. It clarified the intent of the founders of the constitution irrespective of the attempts of modern day religious revisionists.

I had always hoped that the younger generation receiving their early impressions after the flame of liberty had been kindled in every breast . . . would have sympathized with oppression wherever found, and proved their love of liberty beyond their own share of it.

Defend our liberties and fashion into one united people the multitudes brought hither out of many kindred and tongues.

History teaches the young the virtues of freedom. By apprising them of the past it will enable them to judge the future.

The advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from [the clergy].