"The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. I believe in one God, and no more."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love an…"

"That government is best which governs least."

"It is better to suffer a little evil than to do a great deal of good in a wrong way."

"By the universal economy of nature it is known, and by the instance of the Jews it is proved, that the human species has a tendency to degenerate, in any small number of persons, when separated from t…"