It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

I do not believe that any two men, on what are called doctrinal points, think alike who think at all. It is only those who have not thought that appear to agree.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

Let a crown be placed thereon, by which the world may know, that so far as we approve of monarcy, that in America the law is King. For as in absolute governments the King is law, so in free countries the law ought to be King; and there ought to be no other.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.