The intellectual part of religion is a private affair between every man and his Maker, and in which no third party has any right to interfere. The practical part consists in our doing good to each other. But since religion has been made into a trade, the practical part has been made to consist of ceremonies performed by men called priests ... By devices of this kind true religion has been banished, and such means have been found out to extract money, even from the pockets of the poor, instead of contributing to their relief.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

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

Mutual fear is a principal link in the chain of mutual love.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.