An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

The reformation was preceded by the discovery of America, as if the Almighty graciously meant to open a sanctuary to the persecuted in future years, when home should afford neither friendship nor safety.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.