It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster cruel vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging three headed beast like god one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes fools and hypocrites.

Bigotry is the disease of ignorance, of morbid minds; enthusiasm of the free and buoyant. Education and free discussion are the antidotes of both.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.

Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

An enemy generally says and believes what he wishes.