Reason and Ignorance, the opposites of each other, influence the great bulk of mankind. If either of these can be rendered sufficiently extensive in a country, the machinery of Government goes easily on. Reason obeys itself; and Ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

Arms, like laws, discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order.

In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

It is with a pious fraud as with a bad action; it begets a calamitous necessity of going on.

Titles do not count with posterity.

Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice.