Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.