I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence.

the boys of the rising generation are to be the men of the next, and the sole guardians of the principles we deliver over to them.

A little rebellion is a good thing.

Ridicule is the only weapon which can be used against unintelligible propositions.

Religions are all the same...Based upon legends and fantasies

I am increasingly persuaded that the earth belongs exclusively to the living and that one generation has no more right to bind another to it's laws and judgments than one independent nation has the right to command another.