Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

The Almighty Lecturer, by displaying the principles of science in the structure of the universe, has invited man to study and to imitation. It is as if He has said to the inhabitants of this globe that we call ours, "I have made an earth for man to dwell upon, and I have rendered the starry heavens visible, to teach him science and the arts. He can now provide for his own comfort, and learn from my munificence to all to be kind to each other.

Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title.

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.