Taxes should be proportioned to what may be annually spared by the individual.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

The truth is that the want of common education with us is not from our poverty, but from the want of an orderly system. More money is now paid for the education of a part than would be paid for that of the whole if systematically arranged.

The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

The law for religious freedom... [has]put down the aristocracy of the clergy and restored to the citizen the freedom of the mind.