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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

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In questions of power, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution.

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I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

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Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded ...more

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A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

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The executive power in our government is not the only, perhaps not even the principal, object of my solicitude. The tyranny of the legislature is real...more

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If we could believe that he [Jesus] really countenanced the follies, the falsehoods, and the charlatanism which his biographers [Gospels] father on hi...more

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May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of ...more

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It is an axiom in my mind, that our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves, and that too of the people with a certain deg...more

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May it [American independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of ...more

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Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.