Motherhood is the keystone of the arch of matrimonial happiness.

Religious leaders will always avail themselves of public ignorance for their own purpose.

It is not by the consolidation or concentration of powers but by their distribution that good government is effected.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

At the time we were funding our national debt, we heard much about "a public debt being a public blessing"; that the stock representing it was a creation of active capital for the aliment of commerce, manufactures and agriculture. This paradox was well adapted to the minds of believers in dreams.

I am a Christian in the only sense in which He wished anyone to be: sincerely attached to His doctrines in preference to all others.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.