It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Immediate necessity makes many things convenient, which if continued would grow into oppressions.

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

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.