The pleasures of this world are rather from God's goodness than our own merit.
Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
Those who are willing to forfeit liberty for security will have neither.
When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one.
Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither.
Force shites upon Reason's Back.