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• The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it?
  Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state....
• 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....
• That this gentleman [President John Adams] ought not to be the object of the federal wish, is, with me, reduced to demonstration.
  His administration has already very materially disgraced and sunk the government....
• But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religio
  before his principles were departed from by those who professed to be his special servants, and perverted into an engine for enslaving mankind, and aggrandizing t heir oppressors in Church and State....
• Mr. Jefferson has reason to reflect upon himself. How he will get rid of his remorse in his retirement, I know not.
  He must know that he leaves the government infinitely worse than he found it, and that from his own error or ignorance....
• The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.
  What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value....
• 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 it now, deserves the love and thanks of our men and women....
• 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....
• But the greatest of all reformers of the depraved religion of his own country was Jesus of Nazareth.
  Abstracting what is really his from the rubbish in which it is buried, easily distinguished by its lustre from the dross of his biographers, and as separable as the diamond from the dunghill, we have the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of ma...