They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

Swim or sink, live or die, survive or perish with my country was my unalterable determination.

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

When economic power became concentrated in a few hands, then political power flowed to those possessors and away from the citizens, ultimately resulting in an oligarchy or tyranny.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?