That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

If any generation of men ever possessed the right of dictating the mode by which the world should be governed for ever, it was the first generation that existed; and if that generation did it not, no succeeding generation can show any authority for doing it, nor can set any up.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.