"To argue with a man who has renounced the use of reason, is like administering medicine to the dead."

"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love an…"

"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."

"It is not in the power of Britain or of Europe to conquer America, if she do not conquer herself by delay and disunion."

"Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving; it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe."