In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

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.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.

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

Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS.