It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.