The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

Peace, that glorious moment in time when everyone stops and reloads.

I am never tempted to pray but when a warm feeling for my friends comes athwart my heart.

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.

The press is the best instrument for enlightening the mind of man, and improving him as a rational, moral and social being

Peace and abstinence from European interferences are our objects, and so will continue while the present order of things in America remain uninterrupted.