... so far from entrenching human conduct within the gentle barriers of peace and love, religion has ever been, and now is, the deepest source of contentions, wars, persecutions for conscience sake, angry words, angry feelings, backbitings, slanders, suspicions, false judgments, evil interpretations, unwise, unjust, injurious, inconsistent actions.

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mahomedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family.

Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

The knowledge of one generation is the ignorance of the next.

the mode of delivering a truth makes, for the most part, as much impression on the mind of the listener as the truth itself.

Moral truth, resting entirely upon the ascertained consequences of actions, supposes a process of observation and reasoning.

No man can see his own prejudices.