Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

To reason with goverments, as they have existed for ages, is to argue with brutes. It is only from the nations themselves that reforms can be expected

Some people can be reasoned into sense, and others must be shocked into it.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.