Wisdom is not the purchase of a day

If I do not believe as you believe, it proves that you do not believe as I believe, and that is all that it proves.

A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody ought not to be trusted by anybody.

It is the madness of folly, to expect mercy from those who have refused to do justice; and even mercy, where conquest is the object, is only a trick of war; the cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

We hold the moral obligation of providing for old age, helpless infancy, and poverty is far superior to that of supplying the invented wants of courtly extravagance.

Every Tory is a coward; for servile, slavish, self-interested fear is the foundation of Toryism; and a man under such influence, though he may be cruel, never can be brave.

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.