The most valuable of all talents is never using two words when one will do.

Sound principles will not justify our taxing the industry of our fellow citizens to accumulate treasure for wars to happen we know not when, and which might not perhaps happen but from the temptations offered by that treasure

No man will ever bring out of the presidency the reputation which carries him into it

Governments are republican only in proportion as they employ the will of the people and execute it

I know it will give great offense to the clergy, but the advocate of religious freedom is to expect neither peace nor forgiveness from them

The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus by the Supreme Being in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.