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| The adulterous connection between church and state | | Religion | |
| The American constitutions were to liberty, what a grammar is to language: they define its parts of speech, and practically construct them into syntax | | America and Americans; Constitution | |
| The Bible is a book that has been read more and examined less than any book that ever existed | | Uncategorized | |
| The Bible is such a book of lies and contradictions there is no knowing which part to believe or whether any | | Books | |
| The bishop who has answered me has been obliged to acknowledge the fact, that the Books that compose the NT, were voted by yeas and nays to be the word of God, as you now vote a law, by the Popish councils of Nicea and Laodocia, about 1,450 years ago. | | Uncategorized | |
| The book called the Bible has been voted by men, and decreed by human laws to be the word of God; and the disbelief of this is called blasphemy | | Religion | |
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| The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick. | | Uncategorized | |
| The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. | | Uncategorized | |
| The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow | | Overcoming; Smile | |
| The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security. | | Action; Government; Society | |
| The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. | | Uncategorized | |
| The New Testament rests itself for credulity and testimony on what are called prophecies in the Old Testament, of the person called Jesus Christ; and if there are no such things as prophecies of any such person in the Old Testament, the New Testament | | Uncategorized | |
| The New Testament, compared with the Old, is like a farce of one act | | Religion | |
| The New Testament, they tell us, is founded upon the prophecies of the Old; if so, it must follow the fate of its foundation | | Religion | |
| The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice | | Religion | |
| The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection | | Uncategorized | |
| The story of the whale swallowing Jonah, though a whale is large enough to do it, borders greatly on the marvelous; but it would have approached nearer to the idea of a miracle if Jonah had swallowed the whale | | Uncategorized | |
| The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance | | Uncategorized | |
| The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authority; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion | | Study; Theology | |
