Everyone has as much right as he has might.

The more we understand individual things, the more we understand God.

I do not presume that I have found the best philosophy, I know that I understand the true philosophy.

If slavery, barbarism and desolation are to be called peace, men can have no worse misfortune.

Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.

Men are mistaken in thinking themselves free; their opinion is made up of consciousness of their own actions, and ignorance of the causes by which they are determined.

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human nature, not what is new and unheard of, but only such things as agree best with practice.