"They (religions) dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of daylight and scowl on the fatal harbinger announcing the subversions of the duperies on which they live."
"There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people."
"Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none."
"And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
"I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led."
"In truth, politeness is artificial good humor, it covers the natural want of it, and ends by rendering habitual a substitute nearly equivalent to the real virtue."