The Christian Religion As I Understand It

I Would Define Liberty To Be A Power To Do As We Would Be Done By. The Definition Of Liberty To Be The Power Of Doing Whatever The Law Permits, Meaning The Civil Laws, Does Not Seem Satisfactory.

The Balance Of Power In A Society Accompanies The Balance Of Property In Land.

To Believe All Men Honest Is Folly. To Believe None Is Something Worse.

There Are Persons Whom In My Heart I Despise, Others I Abhor. Yet I Am Not Obliged To Inform The One Of My Contempt, Nor The Other Of My Detestation. This Kind Of Dissimulation...is A Necessary Branch Of Wisdom, And So Far From Being Immoral...that It Is A Duty And A Virtue.

Swim Or Sink, Live Or Die, Survive Or Perish With My Country Was My Unalterable Determination.