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

Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man.

Man did not enter society to be worse off, or to have fewer rights, but rather to have those rights better secured

Government is best which governs least

Uncritical reverence for the Founding Fathers was less ubiquitous while they actually lived. . . . "The Reign of Terror that raged in America during the latter end of the Washington Administration, and the whole of that of Adams, is enveloped in mystery to me. That there were men in the Government hostile to the representative system, was once their toast, though it is now their overthrow, and therefore the fact is established against them."

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.