Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

The first was a government of priestcraft, the second of conquerors, and the third of reason.

The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

The creation is the Bible of the Deist. He there reads, in the handwriting of the Creator himself, the certainty of His existence and the immutability of His power, and all other Bibles and Testaments are to him forgeries.

Paper money is like dram-drinking, it relieves for a moment by deceitful sensation, but gradually diminishes the natural heat, and leaves the body worse than it found it. Were not this the case, and could money be made of paper at pleasure, every sovereign in Europe would be as rich as he pleased. But the truth is, that it is a bubble and the attempt vanity. Nature has provided the proper materials for money: gold and silver, and any attempt of ours to rival her is ridiculous.

A man does not serve God when he prays, for it is himself he is trying to serve