never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

I join you therefore in branding as cowardly the idea that the human mind is incapable of further advances.

I hold it that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms are in the physical. Unsuccessful rebellions, indeed, generally establish the encroachments on the rights of the people, which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is medicine necessary for the sound health of government.

One had rather have no opinion than a false one.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

No religious reading, instruction or exercise, shall be prescribed or practiced [in the elementary schools] inconsistent with the tenets of any religious sect or denomination.

I am a real Christian, that is to say, a cisciple of the doctrines of Jesus. I have little doubt that our whole country will soon be rallied to the unity of our Creator.