The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a Censor - over each other.

The happiest moments my heart knows are those in which it is pouring forth its affections to a few esteemed characters.

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

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

It is surely time for men to think for themselves, and to throw off the authority of names so artificially magnified.

We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities. Unmeddling with the affairs of other nations, we had hoped that our distance and our dispositions would have left us free, in the example and indulgence of peace with all the world.