His [Jesus'] historians, having brought him into the world in a supernatural manner, were obliged to take him out again in the same manner, or the first part of the story must have fallen to the ground.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

Kill the king but spare the man.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

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