There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

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

Each of those churches shows certain books, which they call revelation, or the Word of God. The Jews say that their Word of God was given by God to Moses face to face; the Christians say, that their Word of God came by divine inspiration; and the Turks say, that their Word of God (the Koran) was brought by an angel from heaven. Each of those churches accuses the other of unbelief; and, for my own part, I disbelieve them all.

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.