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

But such is the irresistable nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants is the liberty of appearing.

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.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

Taxes were not raised to carry on wars, but that wars were raised to carry on taxes.

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

That which is now called natural philosophy, embracing the whole circle of science, of which astronomy occupies the chief place, is the study of the works of God, and of the power and wisdom of God in his works, and is the true theology.