Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God

One loves to possess arms, though they hope never to have occasion for them.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Sensibility of mind is indeed the parent of every virtue, but it is the parent of much misery, too.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

Never use two words when one will do.

The two principles on which our conduct towards the Indians should be founded are justice and fear. After the injuries we have done them, they cannot love us.