The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.

If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

It is painful to behold a man employing his talents to corrupt himself.

Youth is the seed time of good habits, as well in nations as in individuals.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.