The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

EVERY national church or religion has established itself by pretending some special mission from God, communicated to certain individuals. The Jews have their Moses; the Christians their Jesus Christ, their apostles and saints; and the Turks their Mahomet; as if the way to God was not open to every man alike.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.

THE WORD OF GOD IS THE CREATION WE BEHOLD: And it is in this word, which no human invention can counterfeit or alter, that God speaketh universally to man.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.