It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The Christian religion begins with a dream and ends with a murder.

Is it because you are sunk in the cruelty of superstition, or feel no interest in the honor of your Creator, that you listen to the horrid tales of the Bible, or hear them with callous indifference?

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.

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

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.