I agree with you that it is the duty of every good citizen to use all the opportunities, which occur to him, for preserving documents relating to the history of our country.

The Christian religion, when divested of the rags in which they [the clergy] have enveloped it, and brought to the original purity and simplicity of it's benevolent institutor, is a religion of all others most friendly to liberty, science, and the freest expansion of the human mind.

We sometimes from dreams pick up some hint worth improving by reflection.

[All religious sects] dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight; and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies in which they live.

The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union.

I apprehend... that the total abandonment of the principle of rotation in the offices of President and Senator will end in abuse.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.