“Traitors who prevail are patriots; usurpers who succeed are divine emperors.”

“The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which.”

“...[A] rebel who is inaccurate and mad is a traitor.”

“We must fight for our country and forget our differences. There can be but two parties: the party of patriots and the party of traitors ...”

“If we are to discuss the idea of God and be restricted to rational arguments, then it is probably useful to know what we are talking about when we say “God.” This turns out not to be easy. The Romans called the Christians atheists. Why? Well, the Christians had a god of sorts, but it wasn’t a real god. They didn’t believe in the divinity of apotheosized emperors or Olympian gods. They had a peculiar, different kind of god. So it was very easy to call people who believed in a different kind of god atheists. And that general sense that an atheist is anybody who doesn’t believe exactly as I do prevails in our own time.”

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.”