The children of Israel in the wilderness, led by a cloud by day, and a pillar of fire by night.

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.

The rights [to religious freedom] are of the natural rights of mankind, and ... if any act shall be ... passed to repeal [an act granting those rights] or to narrow its operation, such act will be an infringement of natural right.

The genuine and simple religion of Jesus will one day be restored: such as it was preached and practiced by Himself.

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

I should . . . prefer swallowing one incomprehensibility rather than two. It requires one effort only to admit the single incomprehensibility of matter endowed with thought, and two to believe, first that of an existence called spirit, of which we have neither evidence nor idea, and then secondly how that spirit, which has neither extension nor solidity, can put material organs into motion.

I value peace, and I should unwillingly see any event take place which would render war a necessary resource.