Suspicion and persecution are weeds of the same dunghill, and flourish best together.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

Of all the tyrannies that effect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst; every other species of tyranny is limited to the world we live in; but this attempts to stride beyond the grave, and seeks to pursue us into eternity.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.