Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions. Ideas must be distinct before reason can act upon them; and no man ever had a distinct idea of the trinity. It is the mere Abracadabra of the mountebanks calling themselves the priests of Jesus.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that his justice cannot sleep forever.

Knowledge is power...knowled ge is safety...knowle dge is happiness.

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of man. True, they nourish some of the elegant arts; but the useful ones can thrive elsewhere; and less perfection in the others, with more health, virtue and freedom, would be my choice.

I long to be in the midst of the children, and have more pleasure in their little follies than in the wisdom of the wise.

Easter was when they nailed Him to the cross. And He never said a mumbling word.