Great as our differences are, all of us—professors, politicians, preachers—would no doubt find that we had much in common after all if it were possib… - Carl Lotus Becker

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false is essentially a meaningless question.

Since eighteenth century writers employed reason to discredit Christian dogma, a "rationalist" in common parlance came to mean an "unbeliever"… But this use of the word is unfortunate since it obscures the fact that reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.

Scarce a month had elapsed since the law was to have gone into effect before it was clear to the discerning that, for all their professions, most of the "better sort" were not genuine Sons of Liberty at all, but timid sycophants, pliant instruments of despotism, far more intent upon the ruin of Mr. Adams and of America in general than any minister could be shown to be.