The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

Man must go back to nature for information.

Human language is local and changeable, and is therefore incapable of being used as the means of unchangeable and universal information.

If, to expose the fraud and imposition of monarchy . . . to promote universal peace, civilization, and commerce, and to break the chains of political superstition, and raise degraded man to his proper rank; if these things be libellous . . . let the name of libeller be engraved on my tomb

The times that tried men's souls are over-and the greatest and completest revolution the world ever knew, gloriously and happily accomplished.

One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings, is, that nature disapproves it, otherwise, she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an ass for a lion.

It is the duty of every man, as far as his ability extends, to detect and expose delusion and error.