Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

We must be compelled to hold this doctrine to be false, and the old and new law called the Old and New Testament, to be impositions, fables and forgeries.

The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

On this question of war, three things are to be considered. First, the right of declaring it: secondly, the expense of supporting it: thirdly, the mode of conducting it after it is declared.

The aristocracy are not the farmers who work the land, and raise the produce, but are the mere consumers of the rent; and when compared with the active world, are the drones, a seraglio of males, who neither collect the honey nor form the hive, but exist only for lazy enjoyment.

Kill the king but spare the man.