Ignorance and bigotry, like other insanities, are incapable of self-government.
If you have to eat crow, eat it while it's young and tender.
no one more sincerely wishes the spread of information among mankind than I do, and none has greater confidence in it's effect towards supporting free & good government.
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.
The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.