If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist? ...Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

[F]alsehood of the tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.

Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated.

Governments constantly choose between telling lies and fighting wars, with the end result always being the same. One will always lead to the other.

What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms.

Your sect [the Jews] by its sufferings has furnished a remarkable proof of the universal point of religious insolence, inherent in every sect, disclaimed by all while feeble and practised by all when in power. Our laws have applied the only antidote to this vice, protecting our religions, as they do our civil rights, by putting all on equal footing. But more remains to be done.