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

The age of ignorance commenced with the Christian system.

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.