The Christian god is a being of terrific character - cruel, vindictive, capricious and unjust.

No man will ever carry out of the Presidency the reputation which carried him into it.

Resisting tyranny is obeying God

That the enthusiasm which characterizes youth should lift its parricide hands against freedom and science would be such a monstrous phenomenon as I cannot place among possible things in this age and country.

That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.

Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.

In every country where man is free to think and to speak, difference of opinion will arise from difference of perception, and the imperfection of reason; but these differences, when permitted, as in this happy country, to purify themselves by free discussion, are but as passing clouds overspreading our land transiently, and leaving our horizon more bright and serene.