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

All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.

I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies to another this right, makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.

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

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the sun, in which they put a man called Christ in the place of the sun, and pay him the adoration originally payed to the sun.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.