When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

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

Yet this is trash that the Church imposes upon the world as the Word of God; this is the collection of lies and contradictions called the Holy Bible! This is the rubbish called Revealed Religion!

Not a place upon earth might be so happy as America. Her situation is remote from all the wrangling world, and she has nothing to do but to trade with them.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.