There now remain only a few books, which they call books of the lesser prophets; and as I have already shown that the greater are impostors, it would be cowardice to disturb the repose of the little ones. Let them sleep, then, in the arms of their nurses, the priests, and both be forgotten together.

Prejudice will fall in a combat with interest.

A bad cause will ever be supported by bad means and bad men.

No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

If there was ever a just war since the world began, it is this in which America is now engaged.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer.