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

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.

Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the ages and generations which preceded it. The vanity and presumption of governing beyond the grave is the most ridiculous and insolent of all tyrannies.

When extraordinary power and extraordinary pay are allotted to any individual in a government, he becomes the center, round which every kind of corruption generates and forms.

Ye that dare oppose, not only tyranny, but the tyrant, stand forth!

They took care to represent government as a thing made up of mysteries, which only themselves understood, and they hid from the understanding of the nation, the only thing that was beneficial to know, namely, that government is nothing more than a national association acting on the principles of society.