In the environment, every victory is temporary, every defeat permanent.
I think all the world would gain by setting commerce at perfect liberty.
Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural weapons, free argument and debate; errors ceasing to be dangerous when it is permitted freely to contradict them.
Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.
The moral sense is the first excellence of well-organized man.
A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.