No falsehood is so fatal as that which is made an article of faith.

When authors and critics talk of the sublime, they see not how nearly it borders on the ridiculous.

It is not a God, just and good, but a devil, under the name of God, that the Bible describes.

Let it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it.

Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.

Here then is the origin and rise of government; namely, a mode rendered necessary by the inability of moral virtue to govern the world; here too is the design and end of government, viz. Freedom and security.

A single legislature, on account of the superabundance of its power, and the uncontrolled rabidity of its execution, becomes as dangerous to the principles of liberty as that of a despotic monarch.