A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

The declaration which says that God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children is contrary to every principle of moral justice.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

We feel something like respect for consistency even in error. We lament the virtue that is debauched into a vice; but the vice that affects a virtue becomes the more detestable.

There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.