The balance of power is the scale of peace.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.

Priests and conjurors are of the same trade.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

It is from our enemies that we often gain excellent maxims, and are frequently surprised into reason by their mistakes.

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.