A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.

In reviewing the history of the times through which we have passed, no portion of it gives greater satisfaction or reflection, than that which represents the efforts of the friends of religious freedom and the success with which they are crowned.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

There is no habit you will value so much as that of walking far without fatigue.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

Man is an imitative animal. This quality is the germ of all education in him. From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.