To unequal privileges among members of the same society the spirit of our nation is, with one accord, adverse.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing their oppressors in Church and State.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.

My principle is to do whatever is right, and leave consequences to him who has the disposal of them.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried.