Government is essentially immoral.

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prior to investigation.

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect from it, they would seem to think it is. Let them learn rather that it is an institution serving a purely temporary purpose, whose power, when not stolen, is at the best borrowed.