The danger to which the success of revolutions is most exposed, is that of attempting them before the principles on which they proceed, and the advantages to result from them, are sufficiently seen and understood.

Evils, like poisons, have their uses, and there are diseases which no other remedy can reach.

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

We do not admit the authority of the church with respect to its pretended infallibility, its manufactured miracles, its setting itself up to forgive sins. It was by propagating that belief and supporting it with fire that she kept up her temporal power.

The right of voting for representatives , is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

The Bill of Rights should contain the general principles of natural and civil liberty. It should be to a community what the eternal laws and obligations of morality are to the conscience. It should be unalterable by any human power.