Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

Revenue on the consumption of foreign articles is paid cheerfully by those who can afford to add foreign luxuries to domestic comforts.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Trial by jury is part of that bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.