Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

These are the times that try men's souls.

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Had the news of salvation by Jesus Christ been inscribed on the face of the sun and the moon, in characters that all nations would have understood, the whole earth had known it in twenty-four hours, and all nations would have believed it; whereas, though it is now almost two thousand years since, as they tell us, Christ came upon earth, not a twentieth part of the people of the earth know anything of it, and among those who do, the wiser part do not believe it.

The birthday of a new world is at hand.