There is no art which government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.

That the chance of gain is naturally over-valued, we may learn from the universal success of lotteries.

What is prudence in the conduct of every private family can scarce be folly in that of a great kingdom.

Though the profusion of Government must undoubtedly have retarded the natural progress of England to wealth and improvement, it has not been able to stop it.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none.

The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation.

By nature a philosopher is not in genius and disposition half so different from a street porter, as a mastiff is from a greyhound