Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

Whence arose all the horrid assassinations of whole nations of men, women, and infants, with which the Bible is filled; and the bloody persecutions, and tortures unto death, and religiosu wars, that since that time have laid Europe in blood and ashes; whence arose they, but from this impious thing called religion, and this monstrous belief that God has spoken to man?

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

I die in perfect composure and resignation to the will of my Creator, God.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.