No generation has a right to contract debts greater than can be paid off during the course of its own existence.

No man complains of his neighbor for ill management of his affairs, for an error in sowing his land, or marrying his daughter, for consuming his substance in taverns ... in all these he has liberty; but if he does not frequent the church, or then conform in ceremonies, there is an immediate uproar.

Only aim to do your duty, and mankind will give you credit where you fail.

The only thing a man can take beyond this lifetime is his ethics.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.