If by religion we are to understand sectarian dogmas, in which no two of them agree, then your exclamation on that hypothesis is just, "that this would be the best of worlds if there were no religion in it.

The issuing power [of money] should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs.

If [God] has made it a law in the nature of man to pursue his own happiness, He has left him free in the choice of place as well as mode, and we may safely call on the whole body of English jurists to produce the map on which nature has traced for each individual the geographical line which she forbids him to cross in pursuit of happiness.

As government grows, freedom recedes.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

What i value more than all things, good humor.

The contest is not between us and them, but between good and evil, and if those who would fight evil adopt the ways of evil, evil wins.