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| I am for freedom of religion and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendancy of one sect over another | | Uncategorized | |
| I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too. | | America and Americans; Books; Crime | |
| I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom. | | Uncategorized | |
| I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors. | | Uncategorized | |
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| I believe that justice is instinct and innate; the moral sense is as much a part of our constitution as the threat of feeling, seeing and hearing. | | Justice | |
| I believe... that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another. | | Uncategorized | |
| I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play. | | Common sense | |
| I can not live with out books. | | Reading | |
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| I consider ethics, as well as religion, as supplements to law in the government of man. | | Ethics | |
| I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution. | | Uncategorized | |
| I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pr | | Uncategorized | |
| I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibit the free exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation b | | Uncategorized | |
| I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied as to do the most good of which it is capable | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not agree that an age of pleasure is no compensation for a moment of pain | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature. | | Uncategorized | |
| I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it. | | Uncategorized | |
| I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first. | | Age; Love | |
| I find friendship to be like wine, raw when new, ripened with age, the true old man's milk and restorative cordial. | | Friendship | |
