Independence can be trusted nowhere but with the people in mass. They are inherently independent of all but moral law.

He wove those three threads into a talk ranging from annually spending a week at Halloween as a child collecting candy to giving candy to hundreds of children at Halloween as an adult; from childhood assistance he received from adults, particularly after his parents divorced, to saying I challenge you to be a caring adult in someone's life ... Great times call forth great leaders.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

There is preparing, I hope, under the auspices of heaven, a way for a total emancipation.

The variety of opinions leads to questions. Questions lead to truth.

Free government is founded in jealousy, and not in confidence; it is jealousy, and not confidence, which prescribes limited constitutions, to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power.

But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?