The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.

Agreeable society is the first essential in constituting the happiness and of course the value of our existence.

Being myself a warm zealot for the attainment & enjoiment by all mankind of as much liberty as each may exercise without injury to the equal liberty of his fellow citizens, I have lamented that in France the endeavors to obtain this should have been attended with the effusion of so much blood.

The greatest calamity which could befall us would be submission to a government of unlimited powers.

If we could believe that Jesus...countenanced the follies, falsehoods and charlatanisms which his biographers father on him, ...the conclusion would be irresistible...that he was an imposter.

Those who wish to be ignorant and free, believe in something that never was and never shall be.