My Heart Trembles When I Reflect That

I Hold It To Be One Of The Distinguishing Excellences Of Elective Over Hereditary Successions That The Talents Which Nature Has Provided In Sufficient Proportion, Should Be Selected By The Society For The Govenment Of Their Affairs, Rather Than That This Should Be Be Transmitted Through The Loins Of Knaves And Fools Passing From The Debauches Of The Table To Those Of The Bed.

Errors Of Opinion May Be Tolerated Where Reason Is Left Free To Combat It.

I Had Always Hoped That The Younger Generation Receiving Their Early Impressions After The Flame Of Liberty Had Been Kindled In Every Breast . . . Would Have Sympathized With Oppression Wherever Found, And Proved Their Love Of Liberty Beyond Their Own Share Of It.

History, I Believe, Furnishes No Example Of A Priest-ridden People Maintaining A Free Civil Government.

To Penetrate And Dissipate These Clouds Of Darkness, The General Mind Must Be Strengthened By Education.