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

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

All national institutions of churches, whether Jewish, Christian or Turkish, appear to me no other than human inventions, set up to terrify and enslave mankind, and monopolize power and profit.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

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

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.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.