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

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

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

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

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

Therefore we say that a lying Spirit has been in the mouth of the writers of the books of the Bible.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day, and it is no wonder that we should err at the first setting off.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

It is a faculty of the human mind to become what it contemplates, and to act in unison with its object.

He, who survives his reputation, lives out of despite himself, like a man listening to his own reproach.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

From such beginnings of governments, what could be expected, but a continual system of war and extortion?

It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.

To possess ourselves of a clear idea of what government is, or ought to be, we must trace it to its origin.

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly.

Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expence.

Death is not the monarch for the dead, but of the dying. The moment he obtains a conquest he loses a subject.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

...the Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any.

The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

But if objects for gratitude and admiration are our desire, do they not present themselves every hour to our eyes?

Action and care will in time wear down the strongest frame, but guilt and melancholy are poisons of quick dispatch.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

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.

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