I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

The tax which will be paid for the purpose of education is not more than the thousandth part of what will be paid to kings, priests and nobles who will rise up among us if we leave the people in ignorance

It is so difficult to draw a clear line of separation between the abuse and the wholesome use of the press, that as yet we have found it better to trust the public judgment, rather than the magistrate, with the discrimination between truth and falsehood. And hitherto the public judgment has performed that office with wonderful correctness.

Principle will, in... most... cases open the way for us to correct conclusion.

Creeds have been the bane of the Christian church ... made of Christendom a slaughter-house.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.