Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

We have no right to prejudice another in his civil enjoyments because he is of another church.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

The man who stops advertising to save money is like the man who stops the clock to save time.

If you are obliged to neglect any thing, let it be your chemistry. It is the least useful and the least amusing to a country gentleman of all the ordinary branches of science.

It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood.

Civil government being the sole object of forming societies, its administration must be conducted by common consent.