[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

Free thought, free speech and a free press.

Fanaticism and bigotry require any food but common sense and reason, which would break the charm of those spellbound fanatics.

I find that the whole weight of relieving human misery and distress falls on the shoulders of those Heretics and Infidels; and though great part of this distress has been occasioned by those ravening wolves' hopeful converts.

[G]et two-thirds of the states to alter the Constitution; come out with their national religion, and then let the people get their throats ready.

In all countries, and in all ages, from the Druids down to brother Beecher, priests have aimed at universal power.