They mistake the first manifestations of a developing sexual nature for the voice of God calling them to Himself; and it is precisely when nature is inciting them that they embrace a fashion of life contrary to nature's wish.

The good of the people must be the great purpose of government. By the laws of nature and of reason, the governors are invested with power to that end. And the greatest good of the people is liberty. It is to the state what health is to the individual.

A thing is not proved just because no one has ever questioned it. What has never been gone into impartially has never been properly gone into. Hence scepticism is the first step toward truth. It must be applied generally, because it is the touchstone.

A nation which thinks that it is belief in God and not good law which makes people honest does not seem to me very advanced.

One may demand of me that I should seek truth, but not that I should find it

We swallow with one gulp the lie that flatters us, and drink drop by drop the truth which is bitter to us.

Integrity is the evidence of all civil virtues.