The final event to himself has been, that as he rose like a rocket, he fell like the stick.

It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious as it is unjust. It is absolutely the opposite of what it should be, and it is necessary that a revolution should be made in it. The contrast of affluence and wretchedness continually meeting and offending the eye, is like dead and living bodies chained together

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

War ought to be no man's wish.

"Government," says Swift, "is a plain thing, and fitted to the capacity of many heads."

I detest the Bible as I detest everything that is cruel.

It has been the scheme of the Christian Church, and of all the other invented systems of religion, to hold man in ignorance of the Creator, as it is of Government to hold man in ignorance of his rights. The systems of the one are as false as those of the other, and are calculated for mutual support.