Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

It is not because a part of the government is elective, that makes it less a despotism, if the persons so elected, possess afterwards, as a parliament, unlimited powers. Election, in this case, becomes separated from representation, and the candidates are candidates for despotism.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

What at first was plunder assumed the softer name of revenue.

It may perhaps be said that it signifies nothing to a man what is done to him after he is dead; but it signifies much to the living; it either tortures their feelings or hardens their hearts.

There is no greater tyranny than that of the dead over the living.