The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

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.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.