Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

The lamp of war is kindled here, not to be extinguished but by torrents of blood.

A prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a people who mean to be free.

The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.

Dependence begets subservience and paves the way for tyranny.

Freedom [is] the first-born daughter of science

Certainly, no power to prescribe any religious exercise, or to assume authority in religious discipline, has been delegated to the General Government.