It has been asserted, that a moral Atheist would be a monster beyond the power of nature to create: I reply, that it is not more strange for an Atheist to live virtuously, than for a Christian to abandon himself to crime! If we believe the last kind of monster, why dispute the existence of the first?

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.

I lay down the Position, That whatever a Conscience well directed allows us to do for the Advancement of Truth, an erroneous Conscience will warrant for advancing a suppos'd Truth.

No nations are more warlike than those which profess Christianity.

One must be stark mad, to believe that mankind can subsist without magistrates.

There was no other God, religion, or lawful magistracy, than conscience, which teaches all men the precepts of Justice, to do no injury, to live honestly, and give everyone his due.

It is only common prejudice that induces us to believe that atheism is a fearful state.