The balance of power is the scale of peace.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

My country is wherever liberty lives.

The choicest gift of God to man, the gift of reason; and having endeavoured to force upon himself the belief of a system against which reason revolts, he ungratefully calls it human reason; as if man could give reason to himself.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.