The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The art of publicity is a black art; but it has come to stay, and every year adds to its potency.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

War is the gambling table of governments, and citizens the dupes of the game.

Of more worth is one honest man to society, and in the sight of God, than all the crowned ruffians that ever lived.

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

We still find the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry and grasping at the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised to furnish new pretenses for revenue and taxation. It watches prosperity as its prey and permits none to escape without a tribute.