Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

These are the days that try man's heart.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

People in general know not what wickedness there is in this pretended word of God. Brought up in habits of superstition, they take it for granted that the Bible is true, and that it is good; they permit themselves not to doubt of it, and they carry the ideas they form of the benevolence of the Almighty to the book which they have been taught to believe was written by his authority. Good heavens! It is quite another thing; it is a book of lies, wickedness, and blasphemy.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

In the progress of politics, as in the common occurrences of life, we are not only apt to forget the ground we have travelled over, but frequently neglect to gather up experiences as we go.

Let them call me rebel, and welcome, I feel no concern from it.