Liberty's Chief Foe Is Theology.

Idle And Meaningless ... A Form Less Solemn To Me Than The Affirmation I Would Have Reverently Made.

I Cannot Follow You Christians; For You Try To Crawl Through Your Life Upon Your Knees, While I Stride Through Mine On My Feet.

The Ameliorating March Of The Last Few Centuries Has Been Initiated By The Heretics Of Each Age, Though I Concede That The Men And Women Denounced And Persecuted As Infidels By The Pious Of One Century Are Frequently Claimed As Saints By The Pious Of A Later Generation.

Is It Not Gain To Have Diminished The Faith That It Was The Duty Of The Wretched And The Miserable To Be Content With The Lot In Life Which Providence Had Awarded Them?

If When I Am Libelled I Take No Notice, The World Believes The Libel. If I Sue, I Have To Pay About One Hundred Pounds' Costs For The Privilege, And Gain The Smallest Coin The Country Knows For Recompense.