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.

It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.

There is something absurd in supposing a continent to be perpetually governed by an island.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.