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.

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.

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased

There is a debt of service due from every man to his country, proportioned to the bounties which nature and fortune have measured to him.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

the field of knolege is the common property of all mankind

What is true of every member of the society, individually, is true of them all collectively; since the rights of the whole can be no more than the sum of the rights of the individuals.