"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

To take away (voting) is to reduce a man to slavery.

Wherefore, security being the true design and end of government, it unanswerably follows that whatever form thereof appears most likely to ensure it to us, with the least expense and greatest benefit, is preferable to all others.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

Tears may soothe the wounds they cannot heal.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.