Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.
In the early ages of the world, according to the scripture chronology, there were no kings; the consequence of which was there were no wars; it is the pride of kings which throws mankind into confusio...
We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pre...
But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.
These are the times that try men's souls.
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.
Every religion is good that teaches man to be good and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.
A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.
One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.
It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.
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 it now deserves the love and t...
To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it.
There are matters in the Bible, said to be done by the express commandment of God, that are shocking to humanity and to every idea we have of moral justice.