It is from the Bible that man has learned cruelty, rapine, and murder; for the belief of a cruel God makes a cruel man.

In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

Men did not make the earth... It is the value of the improvements only, and not the earth itself, that is individual property. ... Every proprietor owes to the community a ground rent for the land which he holds.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

It is unpleasant to see character throw itself away.

Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

An army of principles will penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot.