It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

The prejudice of unfounded belief often degenerates into the prejudice of custom, and becomes at last rank hypocrisy. When men, from custom or fashion or any worldly motive, profess or pretend to believe what they do not believe, nor can give any reason for believing, they unship the helm of their morality, and being no longer honest to their own minds they feel no moral difficulty in being unjust to others.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.