The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

Christianity is the strangest religion ever set up, for it committed a murder upon Jesus in order to redeem mankind from the sin of eating an apple.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.