Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying