Let the farmer forevermore be honored in his calling; for they who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.

I consider the doctrines of Jesus as delivered by himself to contain the outlines of the sublimest system of morality that has ever been taught but I hold in the most profound detestation and execration the corruptions of it which have been invented.

All... natural rights may be abridged or modified in [their] exercise by law.

Great innovations should not be forced on slender majorities.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

The love of justice and the love of country plead equally the cause of these people, and it is a moral reproach to us that they should have pleaded it so long in vain.

Every Christian sect gives a great handle to Atheism by their general dogma that, without a revelation, there would not be sufficient proof of the being of god.