Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

It can only be by blinding the understanding of man, and making him believe that government is some wonderful mysterious thing, that excessive revenues are obtained. Monarchy is well calculated to ensure this end. It is the popery of government; a thing kept up to amuse the ignorant, and quiet them into taxes.

It is a fraud of the Christian system to call the sciences human invention; it is only the application of them that is human.

It is the object only of war that makes it honorable.