What is it the Bible teaches us? - raping, cruelty, and murder. What is it the New Testament teaches us? - to believe that the Almighty committed debauchery with a woman engaged to be married, and the belief of this debauchery is called faith.

The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but it is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it. The one is the pope, armed with fire and fagot, and the other is the pope selling or granting indulgences.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim

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