'tis Done. We Have Become A Nation.

Freedom Can Exist Only In The Society Of Knowledge. Without Learning, Men Are Incapable Of Knowing Their Rights.

Such Is My Veneration For Every Religion That Reveals The Attributes Of The Deity, Or A Future State Of Rewards And Punishments, That I Had Rather See The Opinions Of Confucius Or Mahomed Inculcated Upon Our Youth Than See Them Grow Up Wholly Devoid Of A System Of Religious Principles.

A Belief In God's Universal Love To All His Creatures, And That He Will Finally Restore All Of Them That Are Miserable To Happiness, Is A Polar Truth. . . It Establishes The Equality Of [humanity]. . .

I Anticipate The Day When To Command Respect In The Remotest Regions It Will Be Sufficient To Say I Am An American.

A Simple Democracy Is The Devil's Own Government.