The earth, in its natural, uncultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race." As the land gets cultivated, "it is the value of the improvement, only, and not the earth itself, that is in individual property. Every proprietor, therefore, of cultivated lands, owes to the community a ground-rent..to every person, rich or poor...because it is in lieu of the natural inheritance, which, as a right, belongs to every man, over and above the property he may have created, or inherited from those who did

It is not in numbers, but in unity, that our great strength lies.

I call not upon a few, but upon all: not on this state or that state, but on every state; up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel; better have too much force than too little, when so great an object is at stake.

And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.