When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.

But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.

When the rich plunder the poor of his rights, it becomes an example for the poor to plunder the rich of his property, for the rights of the one are as much property to him as wealth is property to the other, and the little all is as dear as the much. It is only by setting out on just principles that men are trained to be just to each other; and it will always be found, that when the rich protect the rights of the poor, the poor will protect the property of the rich. But the guarantee, to be effectual, must be parliamentarily reciprocal.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.