Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

One sailor will do us more good than two soldiers.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

The divinity of Jesus is made a convenient cover for absurdity. Nowhere in the Gospels do we find a precept for Creeds, Confessions, Oaths, Doctrines, and whole carloads of other foolish trumpery that we find in Christianity.

The divine science of government is the science of social happiness, and the blessings of society depend entirely on the constitutions of government.

My best wishes, in the joys, and festivities, and the solemn services of that day on which will be completed the fiftieth year from its birth, the independence of the United States. A remarkable epoch in the annals of the human race, destined in future history to form the brightest or the blackest page, according to the use or the abuse of those political institutions by which they shall, in time to come, be shaped by the human mind.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.