The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.

Aristocrats fear the people, and wish to transfer all power to the higher classes of society.

My construction of the constitution is very different from that you quote. It is that each department is truly independent of the others, and has an equal right to decide for itself what is the meaning of the constitution in the cases submitted to its action; and especially, where it is to act ultimately and without appeal.

Friendship is but another name for an alliance with the follies and the misfortunes of others. Our own share of miseries is sufficient: why enter then as volunteers into those of another?

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

An hereditary aristocracy... will change the form of our governments from the best to the worst in the world.