The story of the redemption will not stand examination. That man should redeem himself from the sin of eating an apple by committing a murder on Jesus Christ, is the strangest system of religion ever set up.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

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

A government of our own is our natural right

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. Too absurd for belief, too impossible to convince, and too inconsistent for practice, it renders the heart torpid or produces only atheists or fanatics. As an engine of power, it serves the purpose of despotism, and as a means of wealth, the avarice of priests, but so far as respects the good of man in general it leads to nothing here or hereafter.

What is called a republic, is not any particular form of government ... it is naturally opposed to the word monarchy, which means arbitrary power.