Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.

A community of small farmers... land property owners, will be the only assurance that the freedom our republic offers will be guaranteed to each and every citizen.

The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

I like to see the people awake and alert.

Ignorance of the law is no excuse in any country. If it were, the laws would lose their effect, because it can always be pretended.

The metaphysical insanities of Athanasius, of Loyola, and of Calvin, are, to my understanding, mere lapses into polytheism, differing from paganism only by being more unintelligible.