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

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

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

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.

The mere man of pleasure is miserable in old age, and the mere drudge in business is but little better, whereas, natural philosophy, mathematical and mechanical science, are a continual source of tranquil pleasure, and in spite of the gloomy dogmas of priests and of superstition, the study of these things is the true theology; it teaches man to know and admire the Creator, for the principles of science are in the creation, and are unchangeable and of divine origin.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.