"Difference of opinion is advantageous in religion. The several sects perform the office of a censor morum over each other."

"It is time enough for the rightful purposes of government for its officers to show that no one can be trusted."

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other much when we become better acquainted."

"I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master."