"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."

"I am not for transferring all the powers of the States to the General Government, and all those of that government to the Executive branch."

"I never did, nor do I believe I ever will, give a dollar for a newspaper. I have thought that the information it contains is not worth the expense."

"The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and ingrafted into the civil institutions, have a bias to look to the civil arm for support, and to awe with civil penalties."

"The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny, are to diffuse it generally among the people, and to give to all, in proportion to their interest in it, a proportionate sh…"