If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

My heart trembles when I reflect that God is just

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science. For one man of science, there are thousands who are not. What would have become of them? Man was destined for society. His morality, therefore, was to be formed to this object. He was endowed with a sense of right and wrong, merely relative to this.

Light and liberty go together.

It is proof of sincerity, which I value above all things; as, between those who practice it, falsehood and malice work their efforts in vain.