It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.

But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men into kings and subjects. Male and female are the distinctions of nature, good and bad the distinctions of heaven; but how a race of men came into the world so exalted above the rest, and distinguished like some new species, is worth inquiring into, and whether they are the means of happiness or of misery to mankind.

It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something in them that either shock our reason, or are repugnant to it, and man, if he thinks at all, must stifle his reason in order to force himself to believe them.

One good schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.

Customs will often outlive the remembrance of their origin.