Government Is Best Which Governs Least

Character Is Much Easier Kept Than Recovered.

Truth Never Envelops Itself In Mystery, And The Mystery In Which It Is At Any Time Enveloped Is The Work Of Its Antagonist, And Never Of Itself.

Mingling Religion With Politics May Be Disavowed And Reprobated By Every Inhabitant Of America.

If, To Expose The Fraud And Imposition Of Monarchy . . . To Promote Universal Peace, Civilization, And Commerce, And To Break The Chains Of Political Superstition, And Raise Degraded Man To His Proper Rank; If These Things Be Libellous . . . Let The Name Of Libeller Be Engraved On My Tomb

Of All The Tyrannies That Affect Mankind, Tyranny In Religion Is The Worst.