That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of nations, is as shocking as it is true; but when those who are concerned in the government of a country, make it their study to sow discord and cultivate predjudices between nations, it becomes the more unpardonable.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

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.

There is existing in man, a mass of sense lying in a dormant state. The construction of government ought to be such as to bring forward, by a quiet and regular operation, all that extent of capacity.

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