A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

I hope that we have not labored in vain, and that our experiment will still prove that men can be governed by reason.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if let alone, but if persecuted, it will be generally read. Every man in the United States will think it a duty to buy a copy, in vindication of his right to buy and to read what he pleases.

Nothing is troublesome that we do willingly.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.