The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

There is no crueler tyranny than that which is perpetuated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.

An injustice to one is a threat made to all

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.

Liberty itself has appeared intolerable to those nations who have not been accustomed to enjoy it.

I have read descriptions of Paradise that would make any sensible person stop wanting to go there.