Private property...is the creature of society and is subject to the calls of that society even to the last farthing.

My refusing to eat meat occasioned inconveniency, and I have been frequently chided for my singularity. But my light repast allows for greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension.

Security without liberty is called prison.

In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires.

Rules too soft are seldomly followed; rules too harsh are seldomly executed.

Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own.

Remember, Sir, that [England] began the slave trade!