When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Countries are well cultivated, not as they are fertile, but as they are free.
A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
Life was given to me as a favor, so I may abandon it when it is one no longer.
There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.
Trade is the best cure for prejudice.