That diabolical Hell conceived principle of persecution rages amoung some and to their eternal Infamy the Clergy can furnish their Quota of Imps for such business.
Among the features peculiar to the political system of the United States, is the perfect equality of rights which it secures to every religious sect.
In a free government the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights.
The Convention thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
We have seen the mere distinction of color made in the most enlightened period of time, a ground of the most oppressive dominion ever exercised by man over man.
Another of my wishes is to depend as little as possible on the labour of slaves.
Outlets for the freed blacks are alone wanted for the erasure of the blot from our Republican character.
If slavery, as a national evil, is to be abolished, and it be just that it be done at the national expense, the amount of the expense is not a paramount consideration.
Union of religious sentiments begets a surprising confidence, and ecclesiastical establishments tend to great ignorance and corruption; all of which facilitate the execution of mischievous projects.
The Constitution of the United States was created by the people of the United States composing the respective states, who alone had the right.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
Democracies have been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their death.
The strongest passions and most dangerous weaknesses of the human breast; ambition, avarice, vanity, the honorable or venal love of fame, are all in conspiracy against the desire and duty of peace.
We’ve staked our future on our ability to follow the Ten Commandments with all our heart.
The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
It was by the sober sense of our citizens that we were safely and steadily conducted from monarchy to republicanism, and it is by the same agency alone we can be kept from falling back.
The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.
Ambition must be made to counteract ambition.
A standing army is one of the greatest mischief that can possibly happen.
War is in fact the true nurse of executive aggrandizement.