In Deism our reason and our belief are happily united.

I know not whether taxes are raised to fight wars, or wars are fought in order to raise taxes.

Whatever has a tendency to promote the civil intercourse of nations by an exchange of benefits is a subject as worthy of philosophy as of politics.

Nothing, they say is more certain than death, and nothing more uncertain than the time of dying

Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

Ignorance is of a peculiar nature; once dispelled, it is impossible to reestablish it. It is not originally a thing of itself, but is only the absence of knowledge; and though man may be kept ignorant, he cannot be made ignorant.