When all other rights are taken away, the right of rebellion is made perfect.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.

Government, like dress, is the badge of lost innocence; the palaces of kings are built on the ruins of the bowers of paradise.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

I disbelieve all holy men and holy books.

No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.