The circumstances of the world are continually changing, and the opinions of men change also; and as government is for the living, and not for the dead, it is the living only that has any right in it. That which may be thought right and found convenient in one age, may be thought wrong and found inconvenient in another. In such cases, who is to decide, the living, or the dead?

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

It was needless, after this, to say that all was vanity and vexation of spirit; for it is impossible to derive happiness from the company of those whom we deprive of happiness.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.