To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

Society is produced by our wants and government by our wickedness.

The Grecians and Romans were strongly possessed of the spirit of liberty but not the principle, for at the time they were determined not to be slaves themselves, they employed their power to enslave the rest of mankind.

Virtue is not hereditary.

It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against which I contend. The story, taking it as it is told, is blasphemously obscene.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.