The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

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.

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

Titles do not count with posterity.

A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

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