I am certainly not an advocate for frequent and untried changes in laws and constitutions...but I know also that laws and constitutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind...

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

To the corruptions of Christianity I am, indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others.

It is safer to have a whole people respectably enlightened than a few in a high state of science and the many in ignorance.

I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery.