The person who deserves most pity is a lonesome one on a rainy day who doesn't know how to read.

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration?

Those who sacrifice essential liberty for temporary safety are not deserving of either liberty or safety.

Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech.

Fart for freedom, fart for liberty—and fart proudly.

The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt.

As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity.