It is in our lives and not our words that our religion must be read.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.

Every nation has a right to govern itself internally under what forms it pleases, and to change these forms at its own will.

When earth is rich it bids defiance to droughts, yields in abundance and of the best quality.

My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.

You will perceive by my preaching that I am growing old: it is the privilege of years, and I am sure you will pardon it from the purity of it's motives.