Is it more probable that nature should go out of her course, or that a man should tell a lie? We have never seen, in our time, nature go out of her course; but we have good reason to believe that millions of lies have been told in the same time.

It is an affront to treat falsehood with complaisance.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will.

Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

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.