Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

All the capital employed in paper speculation is barren and useless, producing, like that on a gaming table, no accession to itself, and is withdrawn from commerce and agriculture where it would have produced addition to the common mass It nourishes in our citizens habits of vice and idleness instead of industry and morality It has furnished effectual means of corrupting such a portion of the legislature as turns the balance between the honest voters whichever way it is directed.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.

It should be our endeavor to cultivate the peace and friendship of every nation, even of that which has injured us most.

Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.

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

I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library in every county, to consist of a few well-chosen books, to be lent to the people of the country under regulations as would secure their safe return in due time.