It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.