No nation is permitted to live in ignorance with impunity

There is not one redeeming feature in our superstition of Christianity. It has made one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

Every constitution..., and every law, naturally expires at the end of 19 years [a generation]. If it be enforced longer, it is anact of force, and not of right.

It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.

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

Health, learning and virtue will ensure your happiness; they will give you a quiet conscience, private esteem and public honour.