The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.

A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.