We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.

When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

When I see throughout this book, called the Bible, a history of the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales and stories, I could not so dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.