For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Nothing but heaven is impregnable to vice.

The Church was resolved to have a New Testament, and as, after the lapse of more than three hundred years, no handwriting could be proved or disproved, the Church, which like former impostors had then gotten possession of the State, had everything its own way. It invented creeds, such as that called the Apostle's Creed, the Nicean Creed, the Athanasian Creed, and out of the loads of rubbish that were presented it voted four to be Gospels, and others to be Epistles, as we now find them arranged.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into 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.