A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.

The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.

From the errors of other nations, let us learn wisdom.

Time makes more converts than reason.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

The protection of a man's person is more sacred than the protection of his property.

Thus commerce, though in itself a moral nullity, has had a considerable influence in tempering the human mind....he trades with the same countries ...(that he) would have gone to war with.