Question boldly even the existence of God.

I have ever deemed it more honorable and more profitable, too, to set a good example than to follow a bad one.

Men possessing minds of the first order and who have had opportunities of being known and of acquiring the general confidence do not abound in any country beyond the wants of the country.

I will now add what I do not like. First, the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly and without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal and unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land and not by the law of nations.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.