What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

It requires but a very small glance of thought to perceive, that although laws made in one generation often continue in force through succeeding generations, yet that they continue to derive their force from the consent of the living. A law not repealed continues in force, not because it cannot be repealed, but because it is not repealed; and the non repealing passes for consent.

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

The Deist needs none of those tricks and shows called miracles to confirm his faith, for what can be a greater miracle than the creation itself, and his own existence?

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.