But every state, says an inquisitor, has established some religion. No two, say I, have established the same. Is this a proof of the infallibility of establishments?

When you abandon freedom to achieve security, you lose both and deserve neither.

I never did, or countenanced, in public life, a single act inconsistent with the strictest good faith; having never believed there was one code of morality for a public, and another for a private man.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

[I]n Great-Britain it is said that their constitution relies on the house of commons for honesty, and the lords for wisdom; whichwould be a rational reliance if honesty were to be bought with money, and if wisdom were hereditary.

My confidence is that there will for a long time be virtue and good sense enough in our countrymen to correct abuses.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.