The fate of Charles I has only made kings more subtle, not more just.
There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.
Let them call me rebel, I feel no concern from it.
The more we bestow the richer we become.
Natural rights are those which always appertain to man in right of his existence. Of this kind are all the intellectual rights, or rights of the mind, and also all those rights of acting as an individual for his own comfort and happiness, which are not injurious to the rights of others.
The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.
The protection of a man’s person is more sacred than the protection of his property.
It is easy to see that when republican virtue fails, slavery ensues.
Government is a necessary evil.
My country is wherever liberty lives.
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.
Accustom a people to believe that priests, or any other class of men can forgive sins and you will have sins in abundance.
All Of Us Might Wish At Times That We Lived In A More Tranquil World... (yet) Our Times Are Challenging And Filled With Opportunity.
In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.
Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.
But in addition to all the moral evidence against the Bible, I will, in the progress of this work, produce such other evidence as even a priest cannot deny; and show, from that evidence, that the Bible is not entitled to credit, as being the word of God.
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.
When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.
To live with our enemies as if they may some time become our friends, and to live with our friends as if they may some time become our enemies, is not a moral but a political maxim.
A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve.