I prefer liberty with danger than peace with slavery.

If there were a nation of Gods, it would govern itself democratically. A government so perfect is not suited to men.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.

I think we cannot too strongly attack superstition, which is the disturber of society; nor too highly respect genuine religion, which is the support of it.

The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.

The infant, on opening his eyes, ought to see his country, and to the hour of his death never lose sight of it.

Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing.