I fear not, I see not reason for fear. In the end we will be the victors. For though at times the flame of liberty may cease to shine, the ember will never expire.

Take away from Genesis the belief that Moses was the author, on which only the strange believe that it is the word of God has stood, and there remains nothing of Genesis but an anonymous book of stories, fables, and traditionary or invented absurdities, or of downright lies.

A constitution, therefore, is to a government what the laws made afterwards by that government are to a court of judicature. The court of judicature does not make the laws, neither can it alter them; it only acts in conformity to the laws made: and the government is in like manner governed by the constitution.

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

The slavery of fear had made men afraid to think.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God.