I Do Not Pretend That All That

Superstition Is A Quality That Seems Indigenous To The Ocean.

America Owes Most Of Its Social Prejudices To The Exaggerated Religious Opinions Of The Different Sects Which Were So Instrumental In Establishing The Colonies.

It Is The Fate Of All Things To Ripen, And Then To Decay.

I Can't See No Great Difference Atween Givin' Up Territory Afore A War, Out Of A Dread Of War, And Givin' It Up After A War, Because We Can't Help It-unless It Be That The Last Is The Most Manful And Honourable.

In America The Taint Of Sectarianism Lies Broad Upon The Land. Not Content With Acknowledging The Supremacy As The Diety, And With Erecting Temples In His Honor, Where All Can Bow Down With Reverence, The Pride And Vanity Of Human Reason Enter Into And Pollute Our Worship, And The Houses That Should Be Of God And For God, Alone, Where He Is To Be Honored With Submissive Faith, Are Too Often Merely Schools Of Metaphysical And Useless Distinctions. The Nation Is Sectarian, Rather Than Christian.