Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation.

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power.

Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity.

Revelation is necessarily limited to the first communication- after that it is only an account of something which that person says was a revelation made to him; and though he may find himself obliged to believe it, it can not be incumbent on me to believe it in the same manner; for it was not a revelation made to ME, and I have only his word for it that it was made to him.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

The trade of governing has always been monopolized by the most ignorant and the most rascally individuals of mankind.

Beware the greedy hand of government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry.