How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

The clergy, by getting themselves established by law and in-grafted into the machine of government, have been a very formidable engine against the civil and religious rights of man.

Dispositions of the mind, like limbs of the body, acquire strength by exercise.

A single zealot may commence prosecutor, and better men be his victims.

Question with boldness even the existence of a god.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

I trust there is not a young man now living in the United States who will not die a Unitarian.