The guilt of a government is the crime of a whole country.

Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a tenfold value. But the landed monopoly that began with it has produced the greatest evil. It has dispossessed more than half the inhabitants of every nation of their natural inheritance, without providing for them, as ought to have been done, an indemnification for that loss, and has thereby created a species of poverty and wretchedness that did not exist before.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.