Liberty cannot be purchased by a wish.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Rights are not gifts from one man to another, nor from one class of men to another. It is impossible to discover any origin of rights otherwise than in the origin of man; it consequently follows that rights appertain to man in right of his existence, and must therefore be equal to every man.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.