I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.