He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.

Travelling. ... when men of sober age travel, they gather knowlege which they may apply usefully for their country

The oppressed should rebel, and they will continue to rebel and raise disturbance until their civil rights are fully restored to them and all partial distinctions, exlusions, and incapacitations are removed.

No man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever.

Be polite to all, but intimate with few.

What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.... [Instead] reason and persuasion are the only practicable instruments. To make way for these, free enquiry must be indulged; and how can we wish others to indulge it while we refuse it ourselves?