When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it.

This I hope will be the age of experiments in government, and that their basis will be founded in principles of honesty, not of mere force.

The most uninformed mind with a healthy body is happier than the wisest valetudinarian.

We are destined to be a barrier against the return of ignorance and barbarism. Old Europe will have to lean on our shoulders, and to hobble along by our side, under the monkish trammels of priests and kings, as she can. What a colossus shall we be when the southern continent comes up to our mark! What a stand will it seem as a ralliance for the reason and freedom of the globe!

Still less let it be proposed that our properties within our own territories shall be taxed or regulated by any power on earth but our own.

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

My affections were first for my own country, then, generally, for all mankind