Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
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.
It is error only and not truth that shrinks from inquiry.
Time makes more converts than reason.
The real man smiles in trouble gathers strength from distress and grows brave by reflection.
Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles he can only discover them.
Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind tyranny in religion is the worst.
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child cannot be true.
We have it in our power to begin the world over again.
All national institutions of churches whether Jewish Christian or Turkish appear to me no other than human inventions set up to terrify and enslave mankind and monopolize power and profit.
I prefer peace. But if trouble must come let it come in my time so that my children can live in peace.
