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It has been the political career of this man to begin with hypocrisy, proceed with arrogance, and finish with contempt
All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.
The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.
Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.
It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.
It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.
For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree
Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.
The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.
How necessary it is at all times to watch against the attempted encroachment of power, and to prevent its running to excess.
It is important that we should never lose sight of this distinction. We must not confuse the peoples with their governments.
It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.
The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation.
The representative system of government is calculated to produce the wisest laws, by collecting wisdom where it can be found.
The stupid texts of the Bible - from which, be the talents of the preacher what they may, only stupid sermons can be preached.
Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.
And to read the Bible without horror, we must undo everything that is tender, sympathizing and benevolent in the heart of man.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
Calumny is a vice of curious constitution; trying to kill it keeps it alive; leave it to itself and it will die a natural death.
Common sense will tell us, that the power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, the most improper to defend us.
It will be proper to take a review of the several sources from which governments have arisen, and on which they have been founded.
No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.
And this manner of speaking of the Almighty, as one would speak of a man, is consistent with nothing but the stupidity of the Bible.
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World....(yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws.
The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
All the tales of miracles, with which the Old and New Testament are filled, are fit only for impostors to preach and fools to believe.
The Christian church has set up a religion of pomp and revenue in pretended imitation of a person (Jesus) who lived a life of poverty.
Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.
Man cannot make, or invent, or contrive principles; he can only discover them; and he ought to look through the discovery to the Author.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.
When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.
There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.
I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.
It is a position not to be controverted, that the earth ... was and ever would have continued to be, the COMMON PROPERTY OF THE HUMAN RACE.
Everything that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'tis time to part.
It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.
The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.
Truth never envelops itself in mystery, and the mystery in which it is at any time enveloped is the work of its antagonist, and never of itself.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
The intimacy which is contracted in infancy, and friendship which is formed in misfortune, are, of all others, the most lasting and unalterable.
They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.
Let the world see that this nation can bear prosperity; and that her honest virtue in time of peace is equal to her bravest valor in time of war.