Taste cannot be controlled by law. We must resist at all costs any attempt to regulate our individual freedoms and to legislate our personal moralities.

There are other places at which ... the laws have said there shall be towns; but Nature has said there shall not, and they remain unworthy of enumeration.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

An equal application of law to every condition of man is fundamental.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.