I Have Alternately Been Called An Aristocrat

In Macbeth A Lady Is Restrained From The Murder Of A King By His Resemblance Of Her Father As He Slept. Should Not All Men Be Restrained From Acts Of Violence And Even Of Unkindness Against Their Fellow Men By Observing In Them Something Which Resembles The Savior Of The World? If Nothing Else Certainly, A Human Figure?

The Great Enemy Of The Salvation Of Man, In My Opinion, Never Invented A More Effective Means Of Limiting Christianity From The World Than By Persuading Mankind That It Was Improper To Read The Bible At Schools.

I Have Always Considered Christianity As The Strong Ground Of Republicanism. The Spirit Is Opposed, Not Only To The Splendor, But Even To The Very Forms Of Monarchy, And Many Of Its Precepts Have For Their Objects Republican Liberty And Equality As Well As Simplicity, Integrity, And Economy In Government. It Is Only Necessary For Republicanism To Ally Itself To The Christian Religion To Overturn All The Corrupted Political And Religious Institutions Of The World.

Upon My Return From The Army To Baltimore In The Winter Of 1777, I Sat Next To John Adams In Congress, And Upon My Whispering To Him And Asking Him If He Thought We Should Succeed In Our Struggle With Great Britain, He Answered Me, "yes-if We Fear God And Repent Of Our Sins."

It Would Seem From This Fact, That Man Is Naturally A Wild Animal, And That When Taken From The Woods, He Is Never Happy In His Natural State, 'till He Returns To Them Again.