The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

My mind is my own church.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.