It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

I am opposed to any form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Give up money, give up fame, give up science, give the earth itself and all it contains rather than do an immoral act. And never suppose that in any possible situation, or under any circumstances, it is best for you to do a dishonorable thing, however slightly so it may appear to you.

Was the government to prescribe to us our medicine and diet, our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now.

The government you elect is the government you deserve.

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

The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry into it: and such tricks have been played with their text, and with the texts of other books relating to them, that we have a right, from that cause, to entertain much doubt what parts of them are genuine. In the New Testament there is internal evidence that parts of it have proceeded from an extraordinary man; and that other parts are of the fabric of very inferior minds. It is as easy to separate those parts, as to pick out diamonds from dunghills.