When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am a friend of its happiness: When these things can be said, there may that country boast its Constitution and its Government