Our minds were circumscribed within narrow limits by an habitual belief that it was our duty to be subordinate to the mother country.

I am not afraid of the priests. They have tried upon me all their various batteries, of pious whining, hypocritical canting, lying and slandering, without being able to give me one moment of pain.

The clergy believe that any power confided in me will be exerted in opposition to their schemes, and they believe rightly.

The same political parties which now agitiate the US have existed through all time. And in fact the terms of whig and tory belong to natural as well as to civil history. They denote the temper and constitution and mind of different individuals.

Is it less dishonest to do what is wrong because it is not expressly prohibited by written law? Let us hope our moral principles are not yet in that stage of degeneracy.

Preachers dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.