The Allwise Creator hath been dishonored by being made the author of fable and the human mind degraded by believing it.

A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.

Government is best which governs least

The mind, in discovering truths, acts in the same manner as it acts through the eye in discovering objects; when once any object has been seen, it is impossible to put the mind back to the same condition it was in before it saw it.

Titles are like a magicians wand which circumscribe human facility and prevent us from living the lives of man.

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.

Public credit is suspicion asleep.