It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

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

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.