Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

Political interest [can] never be separated in the long run from moral right.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

The instability of our laws is really an immense evil. I think it would be well to provide in our constitutions that there shall always be a twelve-month between the ingross-ing a bill & passing it: that it should then be offered to its passage without changing a word: and that if circum-stances should be thought to require a speedier passage, it should take two thirds of both houses instead of a bare majority.

The Habeas Corpus secures every man here, alien or citizen, against everything which is not law, whatever shape it may assume.

I have examined all of the known superstitions of the world and i do not find our superstitions of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all founded on fables and mythology. Christianity has made one-half of the world fools and the other half Hypocrites

It is highly interesting to our country, and it is the duty of its functionaries, to provide that every citizen in it should receive an education proportioned to the condition and pursuits of his life.