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

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

The case, however, is, that the Bible will not bear examination in any part of it, which it would do if it was the Word of God. Those who most believe it are those who know least about it, and priests always take care to keep the inconsistent and contradictory parts out of sight.

Government is not a trade which any man or body of men has a right to set up and exercise for his own emolument, but is altogether a trust, in right of those by whom that trust is delegated, and by whom it is always resumable. It has of itself no rights; they are altogether duties.