The dead should not rule the living

That liberty [is pure] which is to go to all, and not to the few or the rich alone.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

A single good government is a blessing to the whole earth.

Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the President of the United States, and no authority to direct the religious exercises of his constituents.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.