There is in the clergy of all Christian denominations a time-serving, cringing, subservient morality, as wide from the spirit of the gospel as it is from the intrepid assertion and vindication of truth.

I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

A stranger would think that the people of the United States had no other occupation than electioneering.