Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom. Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.

A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.