Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

All the religions known in the world are founded, so far as they relate to man or the unity of man, as being all of one degree. Whether in heaven or in hell, or in whatever state man may be supposed to exist hereafter, the good and the bad are the only distinctions.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.