We need a revolution every 20 years just to keep government honest.
The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.
Christian creeds and doctrines, the clergy's own fatal inventions, through all the ages has made of Christendom a slaughterhouse, and divided it into sects of inextinguishable hatred for one another.
A free government is of all others the most energetic.
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.
An informed citizenry is at the heart of a dynamic democracy.