The most effective way to find ourselves enslaved will not be done openly. If weakened we will sink gradually. I ask, who are the militia? They consist of the whole people, .... except a few public officers.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution.

Our particular principles of religion are a subject of accountability to God alone.

For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead.

I have ever judged of the religion of others by their lives. For it is in our lives, and not from our works, that our religion must be read.