The Question Before The Human Race Is, Whether The God Of Nature Shall Govern The World By His Own Laws, Or Whether Priests And Kings Shall Rule It By Fictitious Miracles?

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• It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment,--Independence now and Independence forever.
  -- Daniel Webster (1782-1852) -- Eulogy on Adams and Jefferson, Aug. 2, 1826, p. 136...
• The Revolution was effected before the war commenced.
  The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people...
• My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
  -- John Adams (1735-1826) 2nd US President, 1789 letter written when he was VP....
• The Church of Rome has made it an article of faith that no man can be saved out of their church
  and all other religious sects approach this dreadful opinion in proportion to their ignorance, and the influence of ignorant or wicked priests....
• Is it the Fourth?" ~~ Thomas Jefferson, US President, d. July 4, 1826
• Theist and Atheist: The fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
  -- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)...
• The proposition that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties is not true.
  They are the worst conceivable, they are no keepers at all...
• We may mount from this dull Earth, and viewing it from on high, consider whether Nature has laid out all her cost and finery upon this small speck of Dirt.
  So, like Travelers into other distant countries, we shall be better able to judge of what's done at home, know how to make a true estimate of, and set its own value upon every thing....
• All laws, whether good, bad, or indifferent, must be obeyed to the letter.