Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

The abolition of domestic slavery is the great object of desire in those colonies, where it was unhappily introduced in their infant state.

Religions are all alike- founded upon fables and mythologies.