There is a natural firmness in some minds, which cannot be unlocked by trifles, but which, when unlocked, discovers a cabinet of fortitude.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true.

Government ought to be as much open to improvement as anything which appertains to man, instead of which it has been monopolized from age to age, by the most ignorant and vicious of the human race. Need we any other proof of their wretched management, than the excess of debts and taxes with which every nation groans, and the quarrels into which they have precipitated the world?"

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

A government of our own is our natural right