The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

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