They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.