The more acquisitions the government makes abroad, the more taxes the people have to pay at home.

Ah, reader, put thy trust in thy creator, and thou wilt be safe; but if thou trustest to the book called the scriptures thou trustest to the rotten staff of fable and falsehood.

It is always to be taken for granted, that those who oppose an equality of rights never mean the exclusion should take place on themselves.

Every proprietor owes to the community a ground-rent for the land which he holds.

To argue with a man who has renounced the use and authority of reason, and whose philosophy consists in holding humanity in contempt, is like administering medicine to the dead, or endeavoring to convert an atheist by scripture.

To believe that God created a plurality of worlds, at least as numerous as what we call stars, renders the Christian faith at once little and ridiculous; and scatters it in the mind like feathers in the air.

The people of America are a people of property; almost every man is a freeholder.