Titles do not count with posterity.

Small islands, not capable of protecting themselves, are the proper objects for kingdoms to take under their care; but there is something absurd, in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.