Paul was the first corrupter of the doctrines of Jesus.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

There is not a sprig of grass that shoots uninteresting to me.

Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise.

The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.

The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame. It is very skillful at concealing itself from its master.