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

The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.

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.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.