Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Human nature is not of itself vicious.