No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.
...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
Reputation is the road to power
There is no pestilence in a state like a zeal for religion, independent of morality.
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.