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

Nature [has] implanted in our breasts a love of others, a sense of duty to them, a moral instinct, in short, which prompts us irresistibly to feel and to succor their distresses.

Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages.

From breakfast, or noon at the latest, to dinner, I am mostly on horseback, Attending to My Farm or other concerns, which I find healthful to my body, mind, and affairs.

Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.

The greatest good we can do our country is to heal its party divisions and make them one people.

Man is not made for the State but the State for man and it derives its just powers only from the consent of the governed.