"War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason"
"Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence"
"To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression"
"To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea"
"There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong"
"The executive has no right, in any case, to decide the question, whether there is or is not cause for declaring war"
"The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse"
"The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government"
"The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms"
"The class of citizens who provide at once their own food and their own raiment, may be viewed as the most truly independent and happy"
"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money"
"The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science"
"The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty"
"Religious bondage shackles and debilitates the mind and unfits it for every noble enterprise, every expanded prospect"
"Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government"
