I would give worlds, if I had them, if The Age of Reason had never been published. O Lord, help! Stay with me! It is hell to be left alone.

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

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

Whatever is my right as a man is also the right of another; and it becomes my duty to guarantee as well as to possess.

It is from the power of taxation being in the hands of those who can throw so great a part of it from their own shoulders, that it has raged without a check.

The balance of power is the scale of peace. The same balance would be preserved were all the world not destitute of arms, for all would be alike; but since some will not, others dare not lay them aside ... Horrid mischief would ensue were one half the world deprived of the use of them ... the weak will become prey to the strong.

Wrong cannot have a legal descendant.