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• Question with boldness even the existence of a God
  because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear....
• Of Law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world.
  All things in heaven and earth do her homage,--the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power....
• A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on Earth.
  .. and what no just government should refuse. -- Thomas Jefferson, Letter to James Madison, Paris, Dec....
• The sheep are happier of themselves than under the care of a wolf.
  -- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American statesman and third president, Letter to William Stevens Smith [Nov....
• The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
  -- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)...
• However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
  There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs....
• No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to.
  It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself...
• Inadmissible: Not competent to be considered. Said of certain kinds of testimony which juries are supposed to be unfit to be entrusted with
  and which judges, therefore, rule out, even of proceedings before themselves alone....