For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Titles do not count with posterity.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.