Government is a necessary evil

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

Europe, and not England, is the parent country of America. This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.