Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

I, place economy among the first & most important republican virtues, & public debt as the greatest of the dangers to be feared

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

A good neighbor is a very desireable thing.

I do verily believe that a single, consolidated government would become the most corrupt government on the earth.