The authors of the gospels were unlettered and ignorant men and the teachings of Jesus have come to us mutilated, misstated and unintelligible.

The introduction of so powerful an agent as steam [to a carriage on wheels] will make a great change in the situation of man.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

A true patriot will defend his country from its government.

Now I will avow, that I then believed and now believe that those general principles of Christianity are as eternal and immutable as the existence and attributes of God; and that those principles of liberty are as unalterable as human nature and our terrestrial, mundane system.

Never use one word when two will do.

It is every Americans' right and obligation to read and interpret the Constitution for himself.