The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.