When my country, into which I had just set my foot, was set on fire about my ears, it was time to stir. It was time for every man to stir.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.

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.

Virtue is not hereditary.

Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity. It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Wisdom degenerates in governments as governments increase in age.