It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

It has been the error of the schools to teach astronomy, and all the other sciences, and subjects of natural philosophy, as accomplishments only; whereas they should be taught theologically, or with reference to the Being who is the author of them: for all the principles of science are of divine origin. Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles: he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax