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

In matters of principle, stand like a rock.

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

An industrious farmer occupies a more dignified place in the scale of beings...than a lazy lounger...too proud to work, and drawing out a miserable existence by eating on that surplus of other men's labor.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

The past stays put, I just keep moving farther away from it.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.