The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Government has no right to make itself a party in any debates respecting the principles or mode of forming or of changing, constitutions. It is not for the benefit of those who exercise the powers of government, that constitutions, and the governments issuing from them, are established.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

Virtue is not hereditary.

For the fate of Charles the first, hath only made kings more subtle — not more just.

Civil rights are those which appertain to man in right of his being a member of society. Every civil right has for its foundation some natural right pre-existing in the individual, but to the enjoyment of which his individual power is not, in all cases, sufficiently competent. Of this kind are all those which relate to security and protection.