The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.

It is never to be expected in a revolution that every man is to change his opinion at the same moment. There never yet was any truth or any principle so irresistibly obvious that all men believed it at once. Time and reason must cooperate with each other to the final establishment of any principle; and therefore those who may happen to be first convinced have not a right to persecute others, on whom conviction operates more slowly. The moral principle of revolutions is to instruct, not to destroy.

How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

O ye that love mankind! Ye that dare oppose, not only the tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth! Every spot of the old world is overrun with oppression. Freedom hath been hunted round the globe. Asia, and Africa, have long expelled her. Europe regards her like a stranger, and England hath given her warning to depart. O! receive the fugitive, and prepare in time an asylum for mankind.

A government of our own is our natural right