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.

There is something in corruption which, like a jaundiced eye, transfers the color of itself to the object it looks upon, and sees everything stained and impure.

The cause of America is in great measure the cause of all mankind.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.