"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."

"This unfortunate difference of color, and perhaps of faculty, is a powerful obstacle to the emancipation of these people."

"I am not a Federalist, because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics, or in anything else, where I was ca…"

"The greatest danger to American freedom is a government that ignores the Constitution."

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government."