It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

No man is prejudiced in favor of a thing, knowing it to be wrong. He is attached to it on the belief of its being right; and when he sees it is not so, the prejudice will be gone.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.