Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

The further the departure from direct and constant control by the citizens, the less has the government of the ingredient of republicanism.

Difference of opinion leads to enquiry, and enquiry to truth; and I am sure...we both value too much the freedom of opinion sanctioned by our Constitution, not to cherish its exercise even where in opposition to ourselves.

Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality.

Equal rights for all, special privileges for none

The cutting of heads is become so much a la mode, that one is apt to feel of a morning whether their own is on their shoulders.

The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.