How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.

To say that God is an incorporeal substance, is to say in effect there is no God at all. What alleges he against it, but the School-divinity which I have already answered? Scripture he can bring none, because the word incorporeal is not found in Scripture.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here.

When a man tells me God hath spoken in a dream, I know he dreamt that God spoke to him.

I shall be glad then to find a hole to creep out of the world.

A democracy is no more than an aristocracy of orators. The people are so readily moved by demagogues that control must be exercised by the government over speech and press.

To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.