Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error.

None but an armed nation can dispense with a standing army. To keep ours armed and disciplined is therefore at all times important.

Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. Enable them to see that it is their interest to preserve peace and order, and they will preserve them.

The liberty of the whole earth was depending on the issue of the contest, and was ever such a prize won with so little innocent blood?

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

If science produces no better fruits than tyranny... I would rather wish our country to be ignorant, honest and estimable as our neighbouring savages are.