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

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

This new world hath been the asylum for the persecuted lovers of civil and religious liberty from every part of Europe. Hither have they fled, not from the tender embraces of the mother, but from the cruelty of the monster; and it is so far true of England, that the same tyranny which drove the first emigrants from home, pursues their descendants still.

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

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

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.

Government is best which governs least