I have as little superstition in me as any man living, but my secret opinion has ever been, and still is, that God Almighty will not give up a people to military destruction, or leave them unsupportedly to perish, who have so earnestly and so repeatedly sought to avoid the calamities of war, by every decent method which wisdom could invent. Neither have I so much of the infidel in me, as to suppose that He has relinquished the government of the world, and given us up to the care of devils.

There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

Men should not petition for rights, but take them

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

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.