To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.