Property monopolized or in the possession of a few is a curse to mankind.

Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.

The world grows more enlightened. Knowledge is more equally diffused.

If "Thou shalt not covet," and "Thou shalt not steal," were not commandments of Heaven, they must be made inviolable precepts in every society, before it can be civilized or made free.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty.