When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

Oh mortal man, is there anything you cannot be made to believe?

The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.