The sun - my almighty physician.

We have already given in example one effectual check to the dog of war by transferring the power of letting him loose from the Executive to the Legislative body

I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

The opinions of men are not the object of civil government, nor under its jurisdiction.

Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.

There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.