If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

When it becomes necessary to do a thing, the whole heart and soul should go into the measure, or not attempt it.

Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

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.

The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.