As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

Titles do not count with posterity.

...It would be more consistent that we call [the Bible] the work of a demon than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance.