Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

What is it the Bible teaches us? -- rapine, cruelty, and murder.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

Virtue is not hereditary.

As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith.