I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance.

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Love your neighbor as yourself and your country more than yourself.

For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

The Constitution is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.