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

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

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

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.