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

The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.

It is unfortunate that the efforts of mankind to recover the freedom of which they have been so long deprived, will be accompanied with violence, with errors, and even with crimes. But while we weep over the means, we must pray for the end.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

A lawyer without books would be like a workman without tools.

Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.