No country can be called free which is governed by an absolute power; and it matters not whether it be an absolute royal power or an absolute legislative power, as the consequences will be the same to the people.

The Bible: a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalise mankind.

To be nobly wrong is more manly than to be meanly right.

I am sensible that he who means to do mankind a real service must set down with the determination of putting up, and bearing with all their faults, follies, prejudices and mistakes until he can convince them that he is right.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt

The NT, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act.