Mystery is the antagonist of truth. It is a fog of human invention, that obscures truth, and represents it in distortion.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

The graceful pride of truth knows no extremes, and preserves, in every latitude of life, the right-angled character of man.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.

When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.