When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

In a chariot of light from the region of the day, the Goddess of Liberty came. She brought in her hand as a pledge of her love, the plant she named Liberty Tree.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

The Book of Job and the 19th Psalm, which even the Church admits to be more ancient than the chronological order in which they stand in the book called the Bible, are theological orations conformable to the original system of theology.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

As to the Christian system of faith, it appears to me as a species of Atheism — a sort of religious denial of God. It professes to believe in a man rather than in God. It is a compound made up chiefly of Manism with but little Deism, and is as near to Atheism as twilight is to darkness. It introduces between man and his Maker an opaque body, which it calls a Redeemer, as the moon introduces her opaque self between the earth and the sun, and it produces by this means a religious, or an irreligious, eclipse of light. It has put the whole orbit of reason into shade.