All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

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.

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.

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.