He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

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

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.