You cannot undermine police authority and then complain about rising crime.

The greatest tyrannies are always perpetuated in the name of the noblest causes.

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.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

It is the duty of every true Deist to vindicate the moral justice of God against the evils of the Bible.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and tho' avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

Governments arise either out of the people or over the people.