I do not pretend that language is science. It isan instrument for the attainment of science.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

What has been the effect of [religious] coercion? To make one half the world fools, and the other half hypocrites. To support roguery and error all over the earth.

The people of every country are the only safe guardians of their own rights.

He who is permitted by law to have no property of his own, can with difficulty conceive that property is founded in anything but force.

Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.