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

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

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.

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

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by interest, would declare that taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.