That religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to th

I've been asked by a number of people to run. I really feel I have a civic duty to get involved and let people vote for someone who is honest, has higher ethics and would watch taxpayers' money.

There is a fiduciary duty here. It's really inconceivable to us.

It is not a man's duty, as a matter of course, to devote himself to the eradication of any, even the most enormous wrong; he may still properly have other concerns to engage him; but it is his duty, at least, to wash his hands of it, and, if he gives it no thought longer, not to give it practically his support. If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's shoulders.

He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

It is the first duty of a hypothesis to be intelligible.