"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions of the people, have become a very formidable engine against the civil rights and liberties of man."

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."

"I think myself that we are over-governed, and that the best government is that which governs least."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."