Our citizens may be deceived for awhile, and have been deceived; but as long as the presses can be protected, we may trust to them for light.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

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

Yet the hour of emancipation is advancing ... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to it's consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Every human being must be viewed according to what it is good for. For not one of us, no, not one, is perfect. And were we to love none who had imperfection, this world would be a desert for our love.

Congress has scarcely any thing to employ them, and complain that the place [Washington, D.C.] is remarkably dull.

One man with courage is a majority.