Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

What more does man want to know than that the hand or power that made these things is divine, is omnipotent? Let him believe this with the force it is impossible to repel, if he permits his reason to act, and his rule of moral life will follow of course.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.