It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

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

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

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?

It is, I believe, impossible to find in any story upon record so many and such glaring absurdities, contradictions, and falsehoods, as are in the books [The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke & John]. They are more numerous and striking than I had any expectation of finding, when I began this examination.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.