Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations.

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

Common sense is the foundation of all authorities, of the laws themselves, and of their construction.

Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.

When once a Republic is corrupted, there is no possibility of remedying any of the growing evils but by removing the corruption and restoring its lost principles; every other correction is either useless or a new evil.

The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?