Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous conscientiousness of honor. It is not the produce of riches only, but of the hard earnings of labor and poverty. It is drawn even from the bitterness of want and misery. Not a beggar passes, or perishes in the streets, whose mite is not in that mass.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

For all men being originally equals, no one by birth could have the right to set up his own family in perpetual preference to all others forever, and tho' himself might deserve some decent degree of honours of his cotemporaries, yet his descendants might be far too unworthy to inherit them.

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

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!