But where, says some, is the King of America? I'll tell you. Friend, he reigns above, and doth not make havoc of mankind like the Royal Brute of Britain.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

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

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

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.