"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

"It is better to suffer a little evil than to do a great deal of good in a wrong way."

"The vanity of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies."

"A man's religion is not to be inquired into, not even by the state itself."

"Man has no property in the earth; but a right to the produce of it."