We Are A Kind Of Posterity In

History Will Also Afford Frequent Opportunities Of Showing The Necessity Of A Public Religion, From Its Usefulness To The Public; The Advantage Of A Religious Character Among Private Persons; The Mischiefs Of Superstition, And The Excellency Of The Christian Religion Above All Others, Ancient Or Modern.

Without Continual Growth And Progress, Such Words As Improvement, Achievement, And Success Have No Meaning.

When Circumstances Don't Fit Our Ideas They Become Our Difficulties

Some Volumes Against Deism Fell Into My Hands ... They Produced An Effect Precisely The Reverse To What Was Intended By The Writers; For The Arguments Of The Deists, Which Were Cited In Order To Be Refuted, Appeared To Me Much More Forcibly Than The Refutation Itself; In A Word, I Soon Became A Thorough Deist.

A Highwayman Is As Much A Robber When He Plunders In A Gang As When Single; And A Nation That Makes An Unjust War Is Only A Great Gang.