We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.

As to the book called the bible, it is blasphemy to call it the Word of God. It is a book of lies and contradictions and a history of bad times and bad men.

Virtue is not hereditary.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

The Vatican is a dagger in the heart of Italy.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.