Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles; he can only discover them.

There are two distinct classes of men - those who pay taxes and those who receive and live upon taxes.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

The moral duty of man consists of imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God, manifested in the creation towards all his creatures. Everything of persecution and revenge between man and man, and everything of cruelty to animals is a violation of moral duty