...let us save what remains; not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in consigning them to the waste of time, but by such a multiplication of copies, as shall place them beyond the reach of accident.

With the same honest views, the most honest men often form different conclusions.

The sun has not caught me in bed in fifty years.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Turning, then, from this loathsome combination of church and state, and weeping over the follies of our fellow men, who yield themselves the willing dupes and drudges of these mountebanks, I consider reformation and redress as desperate, and abandon them to the Quixotism of more enthusiastic minds.