The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

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

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

As priestcraft was always the enemy of knowledge, because priestcraft supports itself by keeping people in delusion and ignorance, it was consistent with its policy to make the acquisition of knowledge a real sin.