We have it in our power to begin the world over again.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

The most detestable wickedness, the most horrid cruelties, and the greatest miseries, that have afflicted the human race have had their origin in this thing called revelation, or revealed religion.

A man will pass better through the world with a thousand open errors upon his back than in being detected in one sly falsehood. When one is detected, a thousand are suspected.

From whence, then, could arise the solitary and strange conceit that the Almighty, who had millions of worlds equally dependant on His protection, should quit the care of all the rest, and come to die in our world, because, they say, one man and one woman had eaten an apple?