To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence.

The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.