These Are The Times That Try Men's

It Is With A Pious Fraud As With A Bad Action; It Begets A Calamitous Necessity Of Going On.

Every Religion Is Good That Teaches Man To Be Good; And I Know Of None That Instructs Him To Be Bad.

I Believe In One God, And No More; And I Hope For Happiness Beyond This Life.

We Repose An Unwise Confidence In Any Government, Or In Any Men, When We Invest Them Officially With Too Much, Or An Unnecessary Quantity Of, Discretionary Power.

War Involves In Its Progress Such A Train Of Unforeseen Circumstances That No Human Wisdom Can Calculate The End; It Has But One Thing Certain, And That Is To Increase Taxes.