The Christian religion is derogatory to the Creator in all its articles. It puts the Creator in an inferior point of view, and places the Christian devil above him. It is he, according to the absurd story in Genesis, that outwits the Creator in the Garden Eden, and steals from Him His favorite creature, man, and at last obliges Him to beget a son, and put that son to death, to get man back again; and this the priests of the Christian religion call redemption.

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

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.