It is singular to look round upon a country where the dreams of sages, smiled at as utopian, seem distinctly realized, a people voluntarily submitting to laws of their own imposing, with arms in their hands respecting the voice of a government which their breath created and which their breath could in a moment destroy!

... we have broken down the self-respecting spirit of man with nursery tales and priestly threats, and we dare to assert, that inproportion as we have prostrated our understanding and degraded our nature, we have exhibited virtue, wisdom, and happiness, in our words, our actions, and our lives!

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

... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.

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

No man can see his own prejudices.

The world is full of religion, and full of misery and crime.