Were I to commence my administration again, the first question I would ask respecting a candidate would be, Does he use ardent spirits?

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.

Chemistry is yet, indeed, a mere embryon. Its principles are contested; experiments seem contradictory; their subjects are so minute as to escape our senses; and their result too fallacious to satisfy the mind. It is probably an age too soon to propose the establishment of a system.

It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead.

The chief purpose of government is to protect life. Abandon that and you have abandoned all.

Should [reformers] attempt more than the established habits of the people are ripe for, they may lose all and retard indefinitely the ultimate object of their aim.

Amplification is the vice of modern oratory.