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

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.