Society is produced by our wants, and government by wickedness; the former promotes our happiness positively by uniting our affections, the latter negatively by restraining our vices. The one encourages intercourse, the other creates distinctions. The first is a patron, the last a punisher.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

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.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

My mind is my own church.