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

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

And as a man, who is attached to a prostitute, is unfitted to choose or judge of a wife, so any prepossession in favour of a rotten constitution of government will disable us from discerning a good one.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

The mind once enlightened cannot again become dark.

Science is the true theology.

Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have different origins ... Society is in every state a blessing, but Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.