They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

One of the evils of paper money is that it turns the whole country into stock jobbers. The precariousness of its value and the uncertainty of its fate continually operate, night and day, to produce this destructive effect. Having no real value in itself it depends for support upon accident, caprice, and party; and as it is the interest of some to depreciate and of others to raise its value, there is a continual invention going on that destroys the morals of the country.