Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.
There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.
The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the Supreme Being as his father, in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.
Christianity neither is, nor ever was a part of the common law.
The dead should not rule the living.
We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.
My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy!
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God.
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
The only security of all is in a free press.
It is reasonable that everyone who asks justice should do justice.
I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.
Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.
I have lived temperately, eating little animal food, and that not as an aliment, so much as a condiment for the vegetables, which constitute my principal diet.
I hold the precepts of Jesus as delivered by Himself, to be the most pure, benevolent and sublime which have ever been preached to man...
Every generation needs a new revolution.
Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.
Equal rights for all, special privileges for none.
Exercise and application produce order in our affairs, health of body, cheerfulness of mind, and these make us precious to our friends.
The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society.