Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Commerce diminishes the spirit, both of patriotism and military defence.

It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

The right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected. To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery, for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another, and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.