...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation to be free: wrongs cannot have a legal descent.

The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

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