"The constitutional freedom of religion is the most inalienable and sacred of all human rights."
"I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should, 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free ..."
"I swear upon the altar of God eternal hostility over all forms of hostility over the mind of man."
"If the people know the truth, they will not make a mistake."
"The care of human life and its happiness, and not its destruction, is the chief and only object of good government."
"We might hope to see the finances of the Union as clear and intelligible as a merchant's books, so that every Member of Congress and every man of any mind in the Union should be able to comprehend the..."
"There is in fact no subject to which a Member of Congress may not have the occasion to refer."
"I look to the diffusion of light and education as the resource most to be relied on for ameliorating our condition, promoting our virtues, and advancing the happiness of man."
"The right to trial by jury is the only anchor yet imagined by man by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution."
"If people let the government decide what foods to eat and what medicines to take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as the souls who live under tyranny."
"If we think the people are not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it away from them but to inform their discretion."