To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself.

‎We must make our choice between economy and liberty or confusion and servitude...If we run into such debts, we must be taxed in our meat and drink, in our necessities and comforts, in our labor and in our amusements...if we can prevent the government from wasting the labor of the people, under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world and do not find in our particular superstition [Christianity] one redeeming feature.

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.

The appointment of a woman to office is an innovation for which the public is not prepared, nor I.